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Nice words for the MOE
Theodosia Jackson, Principal of the Jackson College of Education (JCE), had some nice words for the Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh. Prempeh, she feels, has gotten off to a strong start in his first four months. In fact, Jackson sees Prempeh as the epitome of a good leader: he engages stakeholders and encourages them to work together to come up with the most appropriate solutions to a set of shared challenges. In addition to Prempeh’s outreach and engagement efforts, Jackson admires his personal commitment to raising education standards in Ghana and hopes his work ethic will be consistent during his time in office.
USAID MOE work together
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with the Ministry of Education (MOE) to improve literacy rates in Ghana, with a focus on the more rural areas. The project will empower teachers to act in line with “best practices,” for instance encouraging teachers to adopt the “phonetic” approach. This approach was prototyped in the Yendi Municipality in January of 2017 and yielded strong results thus far.
GES says no to teacher arrear payments
The Ghana Education Service (GES) will not pay arrears owed to promoted teachers, despite demands from the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT). It seems a prior agreement is on the GES side: “The Ghana Education Service, along with our teacher unions, met and agreed that this year’s promotion is without arrears. This has been a collective decision by all stakeholders and teacher unions.” Expectedly, though, the fact that the government agreed to not pay salary arrears ahead of time does not make the recently promoted teachers any happier with the outcome.
MOE to make good on campaign promise
At an event in Kumasi, the Minister of Education suggested that they would move ahead with an NPP campaign pledge to return mission schools back to religious bodies. While it is by no means binding, the handover is expected to resemble that of the mission hospitals: the government will still pay teacher salaries, but the churches will retain operational control.
Also…
Graphic Online posted a fairly comprehensive overview of the debate surrounding compulsory French.
In-depth argument against the “pass BECE and qualify for free SHS” plan.