IN recent years, education in Ghana has become the major priority of every parent since everyone has realised that success can really be achieved through education.
IT is, however, disquieting to see people still looking down on education without taking their wards to school.
THE Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid, has decried the low rate of adult literacy in his region, which according to him, is hampering the proper growth and development of the region.
THE regional minister disclosed that records show that 55.1% of men in the Upper West region are literate with that of the women at 33.8%
THE minister was addressing an advocacy workshop that was held recently on the integration of population variables into district plans.
INFACT, this situation is not the best since it is a contributory factor to the region’s quest to get its people out of poverty.
THE Upper west region has lagged behind in education, literacy and social infrastructural facilities. The lack of these facilities has become a great worry for the chiefs and people in the region.
TO salvage this situation, there is the need to revive the Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education at the various assembly levels to equip the illiterate adults with functional literacy skills.
IT is against this background that Today calls on non-governmental organizations, civil societies and donor agencies to embark on educational projects that will abate the level of illiteracy in the Upper West Region.
RAMPANT migration of inhabitants of the region to look for jobs that do not exist in the cities is also a factor that cannot be ignored. Instead of staying at home and engaging in profitable formal education and non-formal education activities the inhabitants most of whom are mostly the youth travel down south to search for jobs and make ends meet.
THE Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service and the government as a whole has a daunting task to put structures in place to help address the falling standards of literacy in the region.