The Government has received praise for its investments and initiatives in the education sector from Dr. Jaime Saavedra, the World Bank’s Global Director for Education.
According to him, initiatives like the Free Senior High School Policy and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) had made some progress in the sector in terms of enhancing the effectiveness and accessibility of education in the nation.
The Global Education Director made these comments following a two-day trip to Ghana from Thursday, February 9, 2023, to Friday, February 10, 2023, to learn firsthand about Ghana’s education system and to examine World Bank-funded projects in the field.
Dr Saavedra also commended the Ministry of Education for the roll out of the Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), saying the project was improving learning outcomes in less privileged schools.
The GALOP Is a five-year project with the objective to improve the quality of education in low-performing basic schools and strengthen equity and accountability in the education sector.
The project targets the 10,000 lowest-performing basic schools and all special schools with direct interventions.
Dr Saavedra said the Bank would continue to partner and complement the efforts of the Government in improving the quality of education.
“Our interventions are to leverage and complement efforts of State governments,” he added.
Dr Saavedra on Thursday, February 09, first called on Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education, in Accra before embarking on field visits to the Bank’s funded GALOP School site at the Mantse Tackie 1 and 2 Primary School, and a STEM Centre at the Accra High Senior High School.
On his second day, he visited the West African Centre for Crop Improvement and the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens at the University of Ghana, which forms part of the Africa Center of Excellence for Development Impact project of the Bank.
This is the second time the World Bank Global Education Director has visited the country.