{"id":1187423,"date":"2022-08-23T08:13:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T08:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/too-bad-90-of-accras-basic-schools-need-new-classrooms-to-address-overcrowding\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T08:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T08:13:57","slug":"too-bad-90-of-accras-basic-schools-need-new-classrooms-to-address-overcrowding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/too-bad-90-of-accras-basic-schools-need-new-classrooms-to-address-overcrowding\/","title":{"rendered":"[Too Bad] 90% Of Accra\u2019s Basic Schools Need New Classrooms To Address Overcrowding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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. <\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The outcome is a gradual denial of access to free basic education to the urban poor, and overcrowded classrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In schools like Divine Mercy Catholic Basic\u00a0(Ga West) and Oblogo 1&2 MA Basic (Weija-Gbawe), there are up to 120 in a classroom, against a GES recommended 35.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is therefore not surprising that only 34% of Basic 4 pupils in the Greater Accra Region demonstrated\u00a0proficiency in Maths in the 2021 National Standard Test, compared to a national average of 38%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24128,2454,3703,5759,18813,24129,1997],"class_list":["post-1187423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-accras","tag-address","tag-bad","tag-basic","tag-overcrowding","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}