The Education Minister and The Director General of Ghana Education Service made a Systematic and Proactive Approach and Head ways to Tackle the Challenges of Education in Ghana.
The Education Minister and The Director General of GES have received countless criticisms and counter attack from the citizenry and various educationist that seemingly depicts that, both Director General and Education Minister neglected to visit and resolve some critical educational problems in the deprived and less endowed regions.
It is not hard enough to believe that, in a confined fluid, an externally pressure is equally distributed and acts in all directions. The Newly appointed Director General have not Visited the Northern part of Ghana for monitoring assessment, supervision and evaluation purposes.
The two Heads of renounced institutions took a collaborative efforts and chosen this as a yardstick to visit The northern Ghana to ensure some amendments are amicably done.
The Education Minister and The Director General of Ghana Education Service
However, the Region has sub Regions Including Upper West Region, Upper East, Savannah, North East and Northern Region.
It’s believed all Authorities are avoiding the north due to perception that the north is hallow and will expose them to more responsibilities and the bitter truth. The Truth is that several Schools in the north aren’t equipped, they either lack teachers, infrastructure, Accommodation, Furniture of ICT Centers etc
Some teachers have also called for teacher associations to demand for rent allowance to support teachers.
According to Overseer of Africa Education Watch, Mr. Kofi Asare, “Less than 8% of private schools wrote the 2022 National Standardized Test for Primary 4.
The Education Minister and The Director General of Ghana Education Service
The Ghana Education Service has also indicated that the Acting Director General, Mr. Eric Nkansah together with the Education Minister Visited some Schools in the Southern Belt of Ghana, has any Director General of Education Minister Ever Visited the North during his or her Tour.
Dr. Eric Nkansah, the Acting Director-General of GES and the Hon. Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum monitored the National Standardized Test(NST) in some schools within the Nii Amugi Cluster of Schools, Adabraka on Friday, 16th December 2022.
The schools visited were:
1. Calvary Methodist 1 Basic School.
2. Calvary Methodist 2 Basic School.
3. Nii Amugi Basic School.
4. Grey Memorial Basic School.
Basic 2 and 4 pupils from a total of 18,000 public and private schools participated in this year’s NST which started on 5th and ended on 16th December, 2022.
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The Education Minister and The Director General of Ghana Education Service
Director for Early Childhood Education at GES Madam Vida Barbara Ntow and the Greater Accra Regional Education Caretaker, Mr Stephen Abamfo also joined the delegation.
Source: cover Ghana
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