Alex Tettey Enyo, Education Minister
The Ministry of Education last week Thursday ended this year’s edition of the annual three-day National Education Sector review.
The review which was on the theme ‘Revitalizing Education for a Better Ghana’, discussed issues pertaining to education how best education in Ghana could be improved.
The event also sought to identify the various challenges bedeviling the sector and make the requisite recommendations that could be used to improve upon it.
Addressing the gathering at the event, the Minister of Education, Hon. Alex Tetteh Enyo, indicated that review meeting is very important and useful since it usually helps to clarify issues and problems facing the educational sector.
“I am confident that you have had fruitful deliberations and have made useful recommendations to address the challenges confronting education in this country presently, more especially to improve upon the key areas of improving quality education; expanding the delivery of technical and vocational education training; expanding the broadband width for ICT and improving education management,” said the education minister.
He noted that in reviewing the progress of the sector, the focus has always been on outputs and incomes, which is basically using the Education Management Information System (EMIS), annual census figures in order to assess the education sector performance.
“The outputs of the other sectors of the education system that fall outside the EMIS data-base are captured by agencies and divisions that are responsible for the implementation of those subsector policies, which include the non-formal education division and the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE),” Mr Tettey Enyo explained.
The minister continued that this year’s review has placed more emphasis on implementation challenges and clear-cut strategy to implement the ESP 2010-2020 benchmarks and the way forward.
“With this year’s review marking the final evaluation of the ESP 2003-2015, the ministry intends to adopt and begin to implement the ESP 2010-2020 as its policy document over the next ten years,” disclosed the education minister.
The minister pointed out that series of analytical work have been done on the ESP (2010-2020) which has made the ministry fully prepared to take ownership of the document.
“With the theme ‘revitalizing Education for a Better Ghana’ in mind, we are prepared to move towards the achievement of the government’s Better Ghana Agenda through annual reviews and consultations,” the minister emphasised.
According to the minister, his ministry has awarded contracts for the construction of more than five hundred school structures across the country to reduce the growing population in the nation’s senior high schools.
During the review meeting, participants were placed into various technical group sessions and discussed extensively policy issues bordering on some thematic areas which include Access and Quality, Science, Technology, TVET and ICT, Education Management, Education Finance, Monitoring and Evaluation/Education Mgt information System and Tertiary Education.
STORY: CHARITY A. SACKITEY, PIJ INTERN
