A 17-member Ghana Training Belief Fund (GETFund) board was final Friday inaugurated by the Minister of Training, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, in Accra.
The board, chaired by Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, has Masawudu Mahama, consultant from the Ministry of Finance; Rev. Dr Cyril Gershon Kwao Fayose representative of non secular our bodies; Mr Anthony Kwasi Sarpong, Government Secretary of the Income Companies Governing Board; Mr Paul Adjei, Administrator of GETFund; Mrs Mamle D. Andrews, consultant of the Ministry of Training; Prof. Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai, Ghana Tertiary Training Commission and Mr John Awuah of the Ghana Bankers Affiliation as members.
Different members embrace; Ghana Insurers Affiliation, Mr Seth Kobla Aklasi; Nationwide Pensions Regulatory Authority, Persistence Ablah Ganyo; Technical Universities Rev. Prof. John Frank Eshun; Ghana Nationwide Affiliation of Academics, Ms Philippa Larsen; Nationwide Union of Ghana college students and the Ghana Nationwide Union of Polytechnics college students in rotation, Mr Daniel Nii Korley Botchway.
The remaining are the Affiliation of Ghana Industries, Grace Amey-Obeng; the Nationwide Council on ladies and improvement, Ms Francisca Atuluk; Ghana Make use ofers’ Affiliation, Mr Alexander Frimpong and Ghana Training Service Council, Prof. Ernest Kofi Davis.
Inaugurating the board, Mr Iddrisu famous that the newly constituted board should to work to realign funding allocation of the fund.
He mentioned this alignment should mirror the President’s agenda on the training sector and in particular the pursuit of insurance policies that assured that the nation educated learners that have been in tune with twenty first century competencies, values and aptitudes.
“In that regard, it’s my want to request your Board that primary training is prime to the success of any training pursuit. Certainly, I’ve no worry of contradiction that if we don’t get it proper on the primary training stage, we’re not prone to get it proper at free senior highschool and better training,” he confused.
The Minister additionally indicated that the board should prioritise the funding of primary training, stressing that, “30 years on, after the promulgation of the 1992 Structure, it’s not acceptable for Ghana to say that now we have not attained free, obligatory, common primary training.”
He mentioned ideally, the sharing quota ought to have been 35 per cent towards primary training, 40 per cent into larger training and 25 per cent to free senior highschool.
This, he emphasised, was primarily based provided that we nonetheless had some financing help from the Ministry of Finance from the annual finances funding quantity, which remained a major supply of the financing of training, even by the proponents and people who launched free senior highschool.
On his half, the board chairman of the fund, Mr Bedzrah, mentioned they thought of the chance given them as a privilege to serve the nation but in addition a name to responsibility.
He recalled that the notorious Mombrawa Wrestle on the University of Ghana in 1999 when the problem of value sharing was launched on the tertiary stage of our training in Ghana resulting in the institution of GetFund as an progressive method to funding not solely tertiary, however public education in Ghana.
Mr Bedzrah once more famous that the capping of the fund rendered its operations ineffective, saying that “It nonetheless, got here as a terrific aid when the President, by way of the Minister of Finance, requested Parliament to uncap the Fund, and fortunately, this has been accomplished.”
BY CLIFF EKUFUL
