Kofi Asare lists key deficit areas in Ghana’s education for political parties to consider in their strategies for 2025-2028
Mr. Kofi Asare, the executive director for African Education watch
EDUWATCH’s Executive Director, Mr. Kofi Asare has listed key deficit areas in Ghana’s education sector which the political parties must take note of when strategizing the campaign message from 2025-2028.
Ghana’s education landscape for years has still going through a healing stage despite changing the existing curriculum to a “perfect working curriculum” without teaching materials and appropriate facilities.
EDUWATCH for years since its inception has been the mouthpiece of that has the Ghanaian education system at heart. However, the pillars behind the machines of the sector have become an impediment instead of being a force to push for a good course.
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The Executive Director of EDUWATCH has listed some key deficit areas in the education sector that political parties must take note of in their strategies for 2025-2028.
Below are the key deficit areas in Ghana’s education sector according to Mr. Kofi Asare
- Only 13% of public JHS have ICT facilities in Ghana, compared to 15% of primary schools (MoE, 2022).
- Digital Literacy is a Core Competency in Ghana’s Basic School Curriculum introduced 5-years ago.
- In furtherance of Digital Literacy, the curriculum has Computing as a stand-alone subject from Upper Primary to JHS 3 (BS 4-9), and examinable at BECE.
- About 10,000 JHS and 13,000 primary schools need ICT facilities for pupils to catch up with the rest of the world.
- Ideally, the facilities should have been sufficiently available before the new curriculum was rolled out.
- In deprived regions like Savanah (72%), North East (67%), Northern (65%), Upper West (61%), Upper East (56%) and Bono East (56%), more than half of children aged 6-14, did not use an ICT gadget. (GSS, 2021).
- Digital Literacy at the basic education level was one of the challenging education indicators for Ghana in the recently published Global Youth Development Index, which Ghana reportedly ranked 125 out of 183 countries.
“The political parties must take note of this deficit in their strategies for 2025-2028,” he added.
SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh
