One-Third Of Budget To Be Spent On Education

The Ministry of Education (MoE) will spend about one-third of its estimated total budget on Education this year.

Mrs. Doris Gyedu-Nuako, Deputy National Co-ordinator of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) of the Ministry, who made this known said that donors and development partners will also contribute about GH¢89.2 million, to supplement government's efforts at ensuring quality education in the country.

She was speaking at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Agape School Complex at Ashaiman-Lebanon at the weekend, under the theme: "Investing in Quality Education: The Weapon Against Poverty."

Mrs. Gyedu-Nuako, who represented the Minister for Education, as the Special Guest of Honour, reiterated that Education indeed is a huge investment for any nation that seeks to develop.

She, therefore, urged the major stakeholders to invest in quality education so that the nation's fight against ignorance, which is the breeding ground of poverty in the society can be won.

The Deputy National Co-ordinator of ECD appealed to parents to invest in quality education for their wards, by promptly paying their fees and providing their needs.

Numo Adinortey Addison, Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) observed that quality education has the tendency to liberate society of the shackles of poverty and promote good health and sanitation.

Numo Addison charged educational institutions within the Municipality to play meaningful roles in ensuring that Ashaiman becomes a modern business enclave and indeed a 24-hour peaceful city.

He announced that the Municipal Assembly is constructing six classroom blocks and one junior high school block under the Social Investment Fund (SIF), in addition to a six-classroom two-storey block from the GET-Fund.

These infrastructures, the MCE hopes, will cater for the overflow that will result from the elimination of the shift system in the Municipality.

He assured private educational institutions within the Municipality to count on the support of the Assembly through the SIF.

Numo Addison commended Agape School Complex for its splendid performance in last year's BECE Examinations and urged the teachers and pupils not to be complacent, but to put in extra efforts to achieve greater heights.

Pastor Kennedy Kortiah, Director of the School said that it is out of the desire for love and compassion for the idling kids in the community that Agape was established on March 20, 2000 with two pupils and three dedicated staff.

Pastor Kortiah said that non-payment of children's school fees by parents and guardians, inadequate provision of pupils' needs by parents and absenteeism, were the major challenges facing the school.

He, however, said that despite all these challenges, the school authorities are doing their best, to achieve the ultimate goal of providing quality education for the pupils.

Prizes were presented to deserving staff and students.

Source: GNA