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Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has indicated that despite the current crisis facing the country, the economy is on track as the government is rolling out more social intervention programmes across board.<\/p>\n According to him, the challenges being witnessed in the economy were short- term for which reason the country could not afford to sacrifice the common vision due to short-term economic pressures.<\/p>\n He explained that \u201cThe proponents of expenditure cuts point to the economy and argues that the economy cannot support more critical social intervention programs in our society\u201d.<\/p>\n The Vice President said this in a statement read on his behalf by the\u00a0Senior Advisor\u00a0to the President, Yaw Osafo Maafo at the opening ceremony of the National Education Week held in Accra.<\/p>\n In his speech, he pointed out that the monies spent on these interventions should be abolished with monies used on them invested in other things.<\/p>\n The Vice President said that the \u201cdebate should not be whether our public expenditure was too high or too low but must be whether or not these programs contributed to the welfare of Ghanaians and were essential for our national transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDespite the successes chalked in the\u00a0educational sector\u00a0there were still areas unshaken, hence, the government would continue to deepen access to quality Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) education across all levels in all regions and roll out communities of excellence programs across the country,\u201d Dr. Bawumia said.<\/p>\n The Vice President further noted that the government would also ensure that all children acquired literacy and numeracy skills at grade four and provide opportunities for out-of-school children to access basic education and consolidation of free SHS to include free Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET).<\/p>\n He said, \u201cExpand access to tertiary education in all regions, improve learning outcomes across all levels and expand access to teacher trainee education\u201d.<\/p>\n -BY Daniel Bampoe<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia \u00a0 The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has indicated that despite the current crisis facing the country, the economy is on track as the government is rolling out more social intervention programmes across board. According to him, the challenges being witnessed in the economy were short- term for which reason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223575","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=1223575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}