Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has called on government to expedite action in constituting various boards in the education sector for strategic leadership and oversight in ongoing reform and the delivery of quality social services.
This the group said will help in continuous and successful implementation and management of reforms being undertaken by government in the sector.
“Ghana’s education sector is in the middle of an education reform which is not without challenges, especially in the new Standard Based Curriculum roll-out process. The need for strategic direction by Boards of the agencies under the Ministry of Education (MoE) is crucial to the continuous and successful management of the reform process”.
In a statement signed by its Executive Director Kofi Asare, Eduwatch observed that Seven (7) months into the President’s second term, almost all pre-tertiary agencies under the Ministry of Education (MoE) still do not have Governing Boards, a situation it said is seriously affecting their governance, oversight, the delivery of services to the public and the state.
For instance, Eduwatch maintained that the Pre-tertiary Education Act of 2020 (Act 1049) is pivotal in government’s strategy to harmonize under the MoE, the management of all public Technical and Vocational Institutes (TVIs) currently operating under various Ministries, adding that the operationalization of the TVET Service will pave way for the inclusion of students in these TVIs unto the free SHS/Free TVET programme.
It said eight (8) months since the issuance of executive assent to the Act, the establishment of the Governing Board of the TVET Service, together with the entire institutional operationalization have suffered considerable delay.
This delay it said is affecting the timely execution of government’s TVET reforms, including the free TVET programme, raising questions on whether students in these TVIs will enjoy free TVET in the coming academic year.
The group therefore called on the Presidency and MoE to expedite action on the constitution of all Governing Boards in the education sector to provide the needed strategic leadership and oversight in furtherance of the ongoing reform and the delivery of quality social services.
Below is the full statement
