The Chairperson of the Nationwide Schooling Forum Committee, Professor George KT Oduro, has expressed concern in regards to the neglect of fundamental schooling.
Based on him, prioritising fundamental schooling was essential to put a robust basis and higher put together college students for increased education.
Prof. Oduro made this remarks in Accra yesterday through the Nationwide Schooling Discussion board Validation Convention organised by the Ministry of Schooling to critically study points and challenges within the schooling sector and search opinions from related stakeholders.
“One key challenge pertains to the truth that much less consideration has been given to fundamental schooling. And so there’s a name on authorities to pay explicit consideration to that degree”, he emphasised.
On the secondary faculty degree, Prof. Oduro famous that recommendations had been made proposing that folks who wished to enrol their kids in boarding faculties ought to bear the prices.
Additionally, one other suggestion he raised was the necessity for the government to provide one meal to all college students, as a strategic measure to alleviate the monetary burden on the federal government.
On the tertiary faculty degree, Prof. Oduro said that politicisation, which had characterised the governance of tertiary establishment, was one challenge which strongly got here up.
“Stakeholders complain there may be an excessive amount of interference in actions of tertiary establishments, that governing councils aren’t allowed to function as they need to,” he mentioned.
For his half, the Govt Director at Africa Schooling Watch, Mr Kofi Asare, emphasised the necessity for consensus-building and prioritisation of suggestions, given the quite a few challenges dealing with the schooling sector.
“So this validation will probably be distinctive within the sense that past making an attempt to validate or to verify what the proposal could be, we can even attempt to construct consensus on methods to progress in respect of opposing suggestions,” he defined.
Mr Asare once more proposed a framework for prioritisation, categorising points into short-term (inside a yr), medium-term (2026-2029), and long-term (post-2029) targets to enhance the schooling system within the nation.
He mentioned curriculum relevance was a problem, with some stakeholders within the schooling trade arguing that many programmes didn’t align with the wants of industry to the labour market.
The Govt Director of Africa Schooling Watch, referred to as for emphasis on cross-cutting points, corresponding to trainer mobility, curriculum, and infrastructure.
He additionally burdened the necessity for effective regulation and governance within the schooling sector.
BY AGNES OWUSU
