Dr. Yaw Adutwum, the minister of education, has started a $14.39 million US Agency for International Development (USAID) project to expand access to high-quality education in a few low-cost private schools in a few chosen areas of the nation.
The project is to benefit more than 52, 000 students in 213 schools.
The education minister claimed that as a result of the government's efforts to improve education, the sector had witnessed a really outstanding performance by kids in the area, claiming it to be the best in the nation.
He said that 1,278 teachers would receive support to achieve a diploma in basic education, and over 2,100 instructors would receive professional development training and coaching.
Speaking at the event, USAID's Deputy Mission Director, Ms. Grace Lang, said the initiative was the organization's first venture into Ghana's private school market and was created to increase beneficiaries' access to high-quality education.
According to her, the goal of the project was to "ensure that every child in rural and underprivileged communities has access to a high-quality education."
She continued, "The Ghana Advancing Partnership for better Learning Activity would support those schools to improve educational access, quality, and student learning results, and increase private sector investments in northern Ghana.
According to her, the action would boost teacher certification and retention rates, improve the caliber and competence of school leadership, and employ a thorough investment strategy to promote school improvement.
The project, according to the Deputy Mission Director, would improve the business skills of more than 200 school leaders by the end of five years, provide 400 teacher mentors with evidence-based classroom best practices to teach another 2,000 teachers, and certify 1,200 untrained teachers.
According to Ms. Salome Ong'ele, Chief of Party for the USAID/Ghana Advancing Partnership for Improved Learning Activity, $3.9 million of the fund will be distributed to the owners of the beneficiary schools to help them provide better educational services to families with children who are at risk in various communities in northern Ghana.
She predicted that doing so would inspire parents to push their children to pursue higher education.
Alhaji Shani Alhassan Saibu, the minister for the Northern Region, praised the American government for its ongoing assistance to its citizens, especially its young people.
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