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10 #ChangingLives<br />
#ChangingLives<br />
#TransformingGhana #TransformingGhana 11<br />
MCI School<br />
at Salvation<br />
Cluster,<br />
Laterbiokorshie<br />
Fifteen<br />
million<br />
(15,000,000)<br />
exercise<br />
books<br />
distributed to pupils in<br />
selected deprived districts<br />
MCI School<br />
at Saleria<br />
Compound,<br />
Darkuman<br />
MCI<br />
School at<br />
M1 Cluster,<br />
Mamprobi<br />
MCI<br />
School,<br />
Zamarama Line<br />
Ten<br />
thousand<br />
(10,000)<br />
made-in-<br />
Ghana<br />
school<br />
sandals<br />
distributed to pupils<br />
in selected deprived<br />
districts<br />
• Schools in 75 deprived districts<br />
are receiving additional grants<br />
through the Global Partnership<br />
for Education Grant (GPEG) to<br />
boost enrolment and retention.<br />
Government deepened its<br />
programme of subsidising the<br />
conduct of the BECE by supporting<br />
over 444,000 candidates this year.<br />
• Government has also prioritised<br />
the welfare and training of<br />
teachers and improved on their<br />
professionalism and redeployment<br />
at this level. We are seeking to<br />
increase the percentage of trained<br />
teachers at the basic level from<br />
70.2% in 2014 to 75% by end of<br />
2015.<br />
9. Under the Complementary Basic<br />
Education Programme introduced<br />
to rope in out-of-school children:<br />
• 24,117 children were enrolled in<br />
2013/14 in the Northern, Upper<br />
East, Western and Brong Ahafo<br />
Regions. In 2014/2015, 45,000 were<br />
enrolled. Another 55,000 are due<br />
for enrolment at the beginning of<br />
the 2015/2016 academic year in all<br />
Regions of Ghana.<br />
This will bring to 124,177 the total<br />
number of pupils enrolled so far.<br />
• 1,437,500 readers, 6, 900 teaching<br />
manuals and 9,200 teaching guides<br />
have been distributed to facilitate<br />
teaching and learning under this<br />
programme.<br />
10. Under the unprecedented<br />
Basic Education Certificate<br />
Examination (BECE) resit policy,<br />
1,181 candidates had the chance<br />
to re-sit their BECE as private<br />
candidates in February 2015. These<br />
are persons who, but for this golden<br />
opportunity, would have had their<br />
education terminated at the JHS<br />
level.<br />
11. To enhance teaching and<br />
learning outcomes of Mathematics<br />
and Science, the following have<br />
been done:<br />
• 60,000 teachers, representing<br />
56% of teachers at the basic<br />
education level have received career<br />
development training;<br />
• 1,000 teachers have undergone<br />
in-service training in line with the<br />
objective of improving the teaching<br />
of mathematics and science.<br />
We envisage that this will help meet
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