The La-Nkwantanang Madina Municpal Education office has engaged stakeholders on a programme that seeks to reintegrate out of school children into the educational system.
Under the
project, the Ghana Education Service will through its implementing agency
train, re-integrate and retain out-of-school children in the 600 plus beneficiary
schools as well as improve learning gain/outcomes in these schools
The Project,
Ghana Education Outcomes Project (GEOP) stems out of the Ghana Accountability
for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), a five-year project with the objective
to improve the quality of education in low-performing basic education schools
and strengthen education sector equity and accountability in Ghana.
Ms Amelia
Dzifa Atiegar, Public Relations Officer of La-Nkwantanang municipal of
education who briefed stakeholders on GEOP said existing data from the Ghana
Statistical Service on the number of out-of-school children in the country
(2010/20 Census) indicate a high prevalence of out-of-school children.
“The need to follow the successes chalked from the
Complementary Basic Education (CBE) programme by Ghana Education Service which
resulted in over 200,000 children going back to school,” she said.
She said
that over the years, Ghana has made significant progress in improving learning
outcomes in schools and getting children back into schools through policy
direction.
However, existing
data from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (USI, 2020) indicates that, for
Primary (6-11 years) - 283,000 are out-of-school.
135,000 are
out-of-school, for Lower Secondary (12-14 years) and 610,000 are out-of-school
for Upper secondary (15-17 years)
Ms Atiegar
said out of school children, identified as part of the project would be
accessed and given technical and vocational training for a period and based on
their performance some will be integrated into mainstream education
She said
the re-integrating out-of-school children (OOSC), is built on the success of
the Complimentary Basic Education (CBE) programme and expanding it to
incentivise learning and retention
The project
is being implemented in 29 Metropolitan, Municipal & District Assemblies
(MMDAs) including the La-Nkwantanang Madina Municipal.
The regions
benefitting from the project are Northern, Northeast, Savannah, Bono East, Oti,
Greater Accra, and Ashanti Regions.
