Dr. Ernestina Tetteh, Project Manager of STAR-Ghana Foundation, is frustrated by the government’s failure to replace all schools with trees.
She remarked that two years after the pledge, such schools had yet to improve.
Dr. Ernestina Tetteh stated on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News, ” “In 2021, the Ministry of Education launched a programme to replace all schools under trees, sheds and dilapidated structures with decent new school buildings by 2025. What we are saying is that it’s going at a rather slow pace. After two years of the promise, only 17 have been completed. This is too slow. If we are going at this pace, it will take more years for this to be resolved. This is not acceptable”
.The Project Manager of the STAR-Ghana Foundation urged the government to move quickly to rebuild schools under trees with adequate structures.
“We are urging government to increase the pace because it was out of goodwill that government decided to do this because the situation is dire,” she appealed.
The STAR-Ghana Foundation, as well as other Civil Society Organizations such as ActionAid, Africa Education Watch, Ghana CSOs Platform on SDGs, CAMFED, GNAT, GNECC, CCT, World Vision, and ICDP, have all delivered a devastating verdict on Ghana’s basic education system.
The groupings are listed in a paper named “Memorandum of Issues in the Basic Education Sector” complained about a myriad of problems including over-overcrowding in some schools.
The groups complained about a lack of textbooks and exercise books for schoolchildren, nonpayment of power bills, a lack of incentives for rural instructors, and the politicization of teacher recruitment, among other things.
