Wednesday 9th October, 2019
By Albert Futukpor, GNA
Tamale, Oct. 09, GNA – Some Civil Society
Organisations in education, educationists and parents have proposed to
government to double budgetary allocation to the educational sector to provide
adequate dormitories and classroom blocks for senior high schools (SHS) in the
country.
They argued that it would help phase out the
double-track system and reduce congestion in the classrooms and dormitories to
create conducive environment for students to learn and improve on their
academic performance.
They made the proposals at a budget forum on
the 2020 education sector budget in Tamale on Tuesday.
It was to collate inputs into the 2020
national budget and economic policy of the government.
The forum was organised by SEND GHANA with
support from OXFAM in response to the call by the Ministry of Finance for
stakeholder inputs into the 2020 budget statement and economic policy of the
government.
The participants said the double track
system made students to spend more time at home, which was not good for
effective academic exercise, adding that adequate provision of infrastructure
at SHSs would ensure that all students had access to equal facilities to help
improve on education in the country.
They also called for increased budgetary
allocation to equip technical schools to teach students to acquire
self-employable skills to help reduce unemployment in the country.
Other proposals included; the need to
promote complementary basic education to ensure that all children of
school-going age were in school and the establishment of playgrounds at basic
schools to facilitate play method of education for improved cognitive
development for children.
Alhaji Mohammed Haroun, Former Northern
Regional Director of Education, expressed the need for targeted policies in the
educational sector such that specific policies that responded to the peculiar
needs of specific regions would be implemented for improved results.
Mr Mumuni Mohammed, Northern Regional
Programme Manager of SEND GHANA, said the proposals would be harmonised for
presentation to the Ministry of Finance for consideration into the 2020 budget
and economic policy of government.
GNA
