ACCOUNTING TO THE PEOPLE

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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%
TOTAL 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%
TOTAL 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.