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WHAT PROF. JANE NAANA OPOKU-AGYEMANG ACCOMPLISHED AS EDUCATION MINISTER FROM 2013-2017


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PROF. JANE NAANA OPOKU-AGYEMANG

As Education Minister, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang saw to the:

BASIC

  1. Introduction of the BECE subsidy program for all registered candidates in private and public schools.
  2. introduction of Private BECE for students who fail the BECE.
  3. elimination of the obnoxious shift system in public basic schools.
  4. Improvement of textbook ratio at the basic schools from one book to three pupils to four books per pupil.
  5. Improvement in the quality of basic education, resulting in Ghana’s all-time best BECE performance.
  6. distribution of over 40,000 free made-in-Ghana leather sandals for vulnerable pupils in basic schools and 787,485 free school uniforms to deprived districts across the country.
  7. Distribution of laptops for teachers free of charge.

SECONDARY

  1. construction of 123 Community Day SHS (E-Blocks) across the country, 47 of which were fully completed, resourced and operationalized.
  2. Implementation of the Free SHS program which benefited over 320,000 day students in public SHS with a plan to expand coverage to include 120,000 boarding students in 2017.
  3. Ghana’s overall best performing WASSCE nations award by WAEC for four consecutive years.
  4. Refurbishment of all Science Resource Centres.

TERTIARY

  1. Conversion of polytechnics into technical universities.
  2. upgrade of Colleges of Education into full-fledged tertiary institutions.
  3. Introduction of Students’ Loan Plus for students who gain admission but face financial handicap in raising initial, time-bound registration fees.
  4. Increase of student loan beneficiaries from 13,833 in the 2012/2013 academic year to 24,951 in the 2015/2016 academic year.
  5. Abolition of the quota system at the Colleges of Education which led to enrollment increasing from 9,000 to 15,400.
  6. automatic posting of teachers without National Service and Licensure Examination.

Godfred Meba

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