President John Dramani Mahama has appointed an eight-member committee to supervise the planning and execution of the Nationwide Schooling Discussion board, as a part of his dedication to bettering Ghana’s training sector.
Based on a press release signed by the spokesperson to the President, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, on February 2, the committee will likely be chaired by former Professional Vice-Chancellor of the College of Cape Coast, Professor George Okay.T. Oduro.
Different members of the committee will embrace Professor Goski Alabi, Professor Rosemary Bosu, Samuel Awuku, Ph.D, and Professor Smile Dzisi. The remaining are Kofi Asare, Stephen Owusu and Inusah Shiraz.
The committee will likely be tasked with the next goals:
1. Develop a theme and sub-themes to information the stakeholder engagement.
2. Determine key stakeholders within the training sector, together with college students, mother and father, academics (pre-tertiary and tertiary, together with the personal sector), researchers, civil society organisations, growth companions, non secular our bodies, political events, Ghanaian instructional researchers within the diaspora, chiefs, heads of instructional establishments, Parliamentary Choose Committee on Schooling and so on. to be invited as individuals.
3. Develop a stakeholder exercise agenda with time allocations (e.g. thematic breakout periods, plenaries, and so on).
4. Suggest a venue and date(s) for the discussion board.
5. Arrange a secretariat to doc actions.
6. Present a funds for the Nationwide Schooling Discussion board.
7. Develop a complete report detailing the findings and suggestions of the Discussion board.
8. Draft a nationwide training coverage framework and suggest an motion plan for implementing suggestions inside three weeks after the Discussion board.
9. Think about another situation related to the organisation of the Discussion board.
In the meantime the committee has been tasked with submitting a report inside two weeks from official appointment.
The National Education Forum is expected to serve as a platform for critical discussions on education reform, bringing collectively consultants and stakeholders to form Ghana’s training insurance policies.