COMMUNIQUÉ
IDAY
Ghana Position
on quality education confronting Ghana
Preamble:
WE, representatives
of Tema
Coalition, Civil Society Organisations, Schools and the Media organized a
meeting in Tema on Monday, 16th June, 2014 under the auspices of
IDAY Ghana, and Abibimman Foundation to discuss quality education and the role
of government and CSOs on the post-2015 Agenda review as part of IDAY-Ghana’s proactive
engagement and contribution to national and global processes to finding
solutions to the low standard of
education across Ghana;
Recognizing
that effective, efficient and equity of educational resources is critical for
the achievement of the development aspirations of our country; especially the
need to bridge the inequality gap and
move up the ladder of becoming a high income economy through quality education,
Acknowledging the
efforts of government and other stakeholders to improve the quality of
education through budgetary support and targeted support to the sector agencies,
Also,
recognizing that there are other causes of low quality of education and
approaches to addressing low quality of education in Ghana;
Reaffirming our
commitment as CSOs to collaborate, partner and advocate for effective,
efficient and equitable collection and utilization of governments’ resources to
enhance quality education;
Having identified several issues surrounding low quality
of education in Ghana and agreed on possible approaches to addressing the low
quality of education in the country;
Conscious of the fact that the low quality of education
issues in Ghana are no different from those in other African countries;
Therefore
wish to draw the attention of policy makers and other stakeholders in the
education sector to address issues of low quality of education in Ghana by:
1. Readjusting
the school curriculum and timetable and revisit their schools syllabus.
2. Setting
up of counseling unit in the various schools to help deal with most of the
social vices affecting the students.
3. Motivation
of teachers to enhance effective teaching and learning.
4. Building
more schools with appropriate facilities to reduce over population in public
schools to enhance student participation.
5. Monitoring
of teachers presents during school hours.
6. P.T.A
monitoring of students participation during teaching hours to ensure effective
student participation
7. Shift
system should be abolished to enhance quality education.
8. Need
for practical lessons to enhance effective teaching and participation during
lessons.
9. Need
to stock all schools libraries with modern books and other educative materials.
10. Need
for teachers to use simple language for teaching for the understanding of the
students.
11. Need
for proper placement of qualified trained teachers
12. Effective
implementation of school feeding programme.
13. Establishment
of research centre in all schools to enhance revision of the school syllabus.
14. Educational
infrastructure should be disability friendly
15. Children
with special needs should be identified and given special attention or sent to
special schools
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