6 #ChangingLives #ChangingLives #TransformingGhana #TransformingGhana 7 Significant progress has been made in the area of education since the coming into office of the NDC Government. Access to education at all levels has increased considerably. The total number of educational institutions at all levels has risen sharply from 45,447 in the 2008/09 academic year to 57,270 in the 2014/15 academic year, representing an increase of 11,823 or 26%. Total enrolment has gone up from 7,038,738 in the 2008/09 academic year to 8,891,892 in the 2014/15 academic year, representing an increase of 1,853,154 or 26.33%. John Evans Atta Mills Senior High School, Ekumfi Otuam
8 #ChangingLives #ChangingLives #TransformingGhana #TransformingGhana 9 The tables below give a breakdown of figures at all levels. Table 1. Number of schools/institutions at each level of the education system LEVEL 2008/2009 2014/2015 DIFFERENCE CHANGE KINDERGARTEN 16,439 20,960 4,521 27.50% PRIMARY 17,881 21,309 3,428 19.17% JHS 10,213 13,840 3,627 35.51% SHS 670 840 170 25.37% TERTIARY 110 135 25 22.73% TVET 134 186 52 38.81% <strong>TO</strong>TAL 45,447 57,270 11,823 26.01% Table 2. Enrolment trends between 2008/09 and 2014/15 LEVEL 2008/2009 2014/2015 DIFFERENCE CHANGE PRE-TERTIARY 6,884,292 8,578,047 1,693,755 24.60% TERTIARY 154,446 313,845 159,399 103.206% <strong>TO</strong>TAL 7,038,738 8,891,892 1,853,154 26.33% These improvements are the results of policy/regulatory measures, massive investment and social interventions. “A decade and a half into the new millennium, we are providing through our Basic Education Programme, equitable access to good quality and child-friendly universal basic education ...” Millenium City Initiative (MCI) School at Dansoman President John Dramani Mahama Basic Education President John Mahama’s Basic Education Programme provides equitable access to good quality and child-friendly universal basic education. This is being achieved through significant improvements in infrastructure, provision of teaching and learning materials, enhancement of quality of teaching, management and supervision of schools, as well as delivery of social intervention programmes. To this end, the following have been undertaken: 1. School Infrastructure - •A total of 1,614 out of 2,578 basic school projects have been completed under the Schools Under Trees programme. The remaining are due for completion in the medium term. • A number of teachers bungalows, education offices, sanitation blocks and 203 out of 232 classroom blocks have been completed. • The school shift system, through which pupils run shifts due to lack of adequate classrooms, has now been eliminated in many of our communities. In Wa, Sunyani, Tarkwa, Dansoman, Krachi Nchumuru in the Volta Region and many other areas, school children can no longer skip school to play truant in the name of the school shift system. 2. Over 100 million exercise books have been distributed. In 2013 alone, 32 million exercise books were distributed to 4,768,806 pupils across the country while 10 million exercise books were distributed in 2014. 3. Close to two million pupils have been supplied with free school uniforms since 2010. 4. In 2013, Goverment distributed 12.5 million English, Mathematics and Science textbooks to public basic schools. This enabled Ghana to exceed the universal textbook - pupil ratio of three textbooks per pupil (3 textbooks for one pupil) Currently, Ghana’s textbook-pupil ratio stands at 4:1 (four textbooks for one pupil). Before this feat, three pupils used to share one textbook. 5. The total coverage of the School Feeding Programme has increased from 441,189 children to 1,693,000 children. It is also now fully funded by the Government of Ghana. 6. To improve ICT education, 60,000 laptops have been distributed to Basic School pupils in all ten regions of Ghana under the Basic School Computerisation Programme. 50,000 basic school teachers across the country benefited from ICT training. 7. To further consolidate these gains and offer more opportunities for Ghanaian school children, the following interventions are underway: • Distribution of - o Ten thousand (10,000) locally produced school sandals to pupils in selected deprived districts o Six million (6,000,000) textbooks o Five hundred thousand (500,000) pieces of school uniforms o Fifteen million (15,000,000) exercise books • Thirty thousand (30,000) computers are also being distributed to schools across the country as well as 11,300 mono desks, 20,000 dual desks and workbooks for pre-school children.
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