The Ministry of Education has launched the Education Strategic Plan (ESP)\nwhich seeks to make students proficient between 2018 and 2030 by serving as a\nguide in the effort to attain Sust"},"modified":"2019-08-12T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:58:02","slug":"education-ministry-launches-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/12\/education-ministry-launches-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry Launches Strategic Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Ministry of Education has launched the Education Strategic Plan (ESP) \nwhich seeks to make students proficient between 2018 and 2030 by serving as a \nguide in the effort to attain Sustainable Development Goal four (SDG4).<\/p>\n
The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh speaking at the \n2019 2nd National Education Week in Accra entreated the participants to work \nwithin the framework of the strategic plan to build effective partnerships with \nthe ministry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ESP enjoins us to work to achieve 65% of all Primary four pupils being proficient in English by the year 2030 with 37% of Primary four pupils being proficient in English at the moment,\u201d he said, adding \u201cin Mathematics, the ESP\u2019s target is to achieve 50% proficiency rate by all Primary four pupils by 2030 with the Primary four mathematics proficiency rate being 22%.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
According to the minister, \u201cat the secondary level, the ESP target \nfor tertiary qualification rate is 50% by 2030 as the tertiary qualification \nrate has averaged 25% over the last five years. At the Tertiary level, we have \ncommitted to increasing Gross Enrolment Rate (GER) from the current 15.95% to \n40% by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are committed to attaining 60:40 sciences to humanities ratio at \nthe tertiary level. The current science to humanities ratio is 29:71\u201d he \nemphasized.<\/p>\n
The Minister said \u201cwhilst I remain optimistic that we can achieve \nthe set ESP targets, lessons from the implementation of previous strategic \nplans should make the sector open to innovative and creative ways of \nimplementing and financing the ESP.\u201d<\/p>\n
The minister noted that \u201cwe have grown accustomed to our ways of \nteaching and delivering lessons, monitoring and supervision, assessment, human \nresource development and career development among others,\u201d adding \u201cwhile these \napproaches have resulted in some modest improvement in the sector, achieving \nthe ESP targets by 2030 requires improvement in learning and access to occur at \na faster pace than the current rate of improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to him, since 2017 measures have been put in place to address challenges that have hindered the progress of the education sector for many years as they believe those difficult decisions were critical to make access to education equitable and improve quality across the board.<\/p>\n
BY Daniel Bampoe\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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