An investigative Eduwatch report on Basic Education Infrastructure has instituted that there’s a timely need to be injected in schools in Accra to enhance proper learning and concrete supervision in schools in producing top-notch brilliant students for the tertiary education cycle.
The declining budgetary allocation to basic education has caused a slow growth of public basic education infrastructure from 1,036 new schools in 2015/16 to 487 in 2019/20.
This is much felt in the Greater Accra Region where only 19 schools were constructed in 2018/19 compared to 98 schools in 2015/16, and this is a region with the highest population growth of 36% every ten years.
The outcome is a gradual denial of access to free basic education to the urban poor, and overcrowded classrooms.
In schools like Divine Mercy Catholic Basic (Ga West) and Oblogo 1&2 MA Basic (Weija-Gbawe), there are up to 120 in a classroom, against a GES recommended 35.
It is therefore not surprising that only 34% of Basic 4 pupils in the Greater Accra Region demonstrated proficiency in Maths in the 2021 National Standard Test, compared to a national average of 38%.
Government must fund a plan to increase basic school infrastructure in urban areas, in line with the population growth. Over 90% of schools in Greater Accra require additional classrooms immediately; out of these, some 20% have abandoned projects dating as far as 2015.
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