NEWS IN: The government Has Set Up A $25-million Fund To Help Mop Up Children In The Country Who Are Still Out Of Basic School.

The government Has Set Up A $25-million Fund To Help Mop Up Children In The Country Who Are Still Out Of Basic School.

The fund is part of a World Bank-sponsored Education Outcomes Fund of $30 million to increase school enrolment and improve learning outcomes.

Aside from mopping up out-of-school children, the fund will also finance efforts to improve learning in schools where the out-of-school children will be mainstreamed.

Private entities and a number of agencies have been brought on board to support the fund, which will also ensure that more teachers are trained to support the increased enrolment in schools when more of the children are roped into the mainstream educational system.

Target

The project is targeted at putting in school 70,000 out-of-school children.

The number is made up of 10,000 street children in Accra/Kumasi and 60,000 out-of-school children in the rural areas of the country.

Although existing interventions rolled out by the government, including the free compulsory universal basic education (FCUBE) programme,

have been tremendous and brought thousands of children who were out of school into the formal educational system, many other children are still vulnerable, hence out of school.

The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, made this known at the launch of a research project aimed at increasing access to quality education for rural and marginalised children in West Africa in Accra last Friday.

He observed that education was the game changer,

hence the government’s determination to send children of school age to school to help turn around the fortunes of the country.

With Ghana’s Gross Tertiary Enrolment Ratio (GTER) of 18.8 per cent and sub-Saharan Africa’s seven per cent,

the minister cautioned that Ghana must not be caught up in the African mediocrity trap and get excited that it had been able to go beyond the average GTER in the sub-Saharan Africa.

Access to quality education

He said the target was to reach 40 per cent in the GTER by 2030 and called on stakeholders to support the government to achieve that target.

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