Ghana: Minister for Education Presents Learning Materials to Basic Schools for the 2016/2017 Academic Year

África/Ghana/11 de Septiembre de 2016/Fuente: All Africa

RESUMEN: El Ministro de Educación, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang-, ha hecho una presentación de los suministros de rutina de aprendizaje y material didáctico a las escuelas de base para el año académico, a partir del martes, 13 de de septiembre de 2016. En una breve discusión con los medios de comunicación en Accra el martes, dijo que todas las escuelas públicas de todo el país fueron dotadas con suministros tales como tizas, registros, cuadernos de clase de los profesores y libros de ejercicios para que todos los estudiantes tengan un año académico exitoso y de calidad. Dando la descomposición, dijo el profesor Opoku Agyemang-, para el año académico 2016/2017,  el gobierno habían comprado un total de 350.000 registros de asistencia, 230.000 libros para maestros   y 2.400.000 cajas de tiza blanca. Además, dijo, el gobierno también ha puesto a disposición de 209,415 uniformes escolares y 40.000 sandalias escolares, así como diccionarios 2,549,647 para las escuelas básicas de todo el país.

Minister for Education, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has made a presentation of routine supplies of learning and teaching material to Basic Schools for the academic year, beginning Tuesday, September 13, 2016.

In a brief discussion with the media in Accra on Tuesday, the Minister said with the presentation, all public schools across the country were to be furnished, upon re-opening, with supplies such as chalks, registers, teachers’ lesson notebooks and exercise books to enable all students have a successful and quality academic year.

Giving the break down, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang said, for the 2016/2017 academic year, her office and government had purchased a total of 350,000 attendance registers, 230,000 teachers note books and 2,400,000 boxes of white chalk.

In addition, she said, government had also made available of 209,415 school uniforms and 40,000 school sandals as well as 2,549,647 dictionaries for basic schools across the country.

She disclosed that the Ministry of Education, in a joint partnership with the Publishers and Printers Association of Ghana, had completed the procurement process for the supply of Core Text Books to Senior High Schools (SHSs).

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang stated that in the 2016/2017 academic year, contracts were awarded for the supply of 52, 773 pieces of assorted furniture to both basic and SHSs.

Touching on school fees, the Education Minister said the Ministry, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council, had developed standardized approved fees for SHSs in respect of 2016/2017 academic year.

According to Prof. Opoku-Agyaman, Day SHS students were expected to pay an amount of Four Hundred and Sixty Ghana Cedis (GH¢ 460.00), while the boarders would pay a fee of Nine Hundred and Twenty Two Cedis, Twenty Pesewas (GH¢ 922.20), for the first term only.

She said the first term fees included one-off payment of uniforms, house dresses, P.E Kits, school cloth, medical exams and school supplies.

She disclosed that as part of the progressively free education mandate of government in the Constitution, government would absorb 12 fee items on the bill, namely examination, entertainment, national science and maths quiz, science development, utilities, library, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), sports, culture co-curricular activities and Student Representative Council (SRC) dues, adding that the charges only applied to government schools.

She noted that parents still had a huge responsibility towards their wards in school and appealed to all stakeholders to work with GES Council in approving any fees to be charged within their jurisdiction.

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