In a post shared on his Official Facebook page he revealed that he has been going through the Ghana Education Fact Sheet 2020 for some time now and something struck me. He said “Do you know that:
1. At the primary and lower secondary levels, the majority of out-of-school children are boys. However, at the upper secondary level this trend reverses, and more girls are out of school.
2. Even though the Northern region has the lowest share of children with foundational reading and numeracy skills, the densely-populated Ashanti region has the greatest number of children who are not learning.
3. The share of children with foundational reading and numeracy skills varies considerably based on the language spoken at home. Compared to other languages, a higher share of children who speak English at home have foundational reading and numeracy skills.
4. 63% of children complete primary education in the Volta region but only 15% of children complete upper secondary.
5. The gap between the completion rates of children from the richest and poorest wealth quintiles widens starkly as they progress through the education system. While 71% of children from the richest quintile complete upper secondary education, only 9% of the children from the poorest quintile do so.
He added that data suggests that there is a furniture gap of 114,753 (seating) and 99663 (writing) at the pre-tertiary level with a teacher gap of 2904 in the Bono East region (EMIS 2020/21).
In the Western North region, for instance, a total of 1705 teachers are needed for KG, Primary, and JHS. These statistics infers that this year our teacher recruitment and deployment strategies should be informed by data which should result in teachers being posted to regions where their services are needed.
We have a lot to do in the education sector if we want to bridge the gap of inequality and ensure equity and delivery of quality education. “.
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