The Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has called on citizens, CSOs, media, and others to help accelerate the advocacy for equitable sub-sectoral financing of education in Ghana.
According to Eduwatch, the discrepancy in the disbursement rate of resources is concerning as basic education received just a quarter of what went to secondary education in 2021.
“There are about 1.3 million learners in Ghana’s Second Cycle Schools. Even though GHC 74 million of GETFund was allocated to Second Cycle Education in 2021, the Government of Ghana (GoG) ended up disbursing even more i.e. GHC 100 million, representing a disbursement rate of 135%.
“At the same time, Basic Education with over 7 million learners was allocated only GH 66 million, yet GoG disbursed only GHC 25 million, representing 37% of the allocation.
“In summary, basic education received a quarter of what went to secondary education in 2021. Note however, that this disbursement to secondary excludes the GHC 866 million spent by GETFund in servicing a loan taken by MoE to upgrade SHS,” Eduwatch said in a tweet on Thursday.
For Eduwatch, this explains why several schools in the hinterlands and communities are abandoned by government, adding “over 5,400 schools still exist under trees, sheds & dilapidated structures; and 40% of basic school pupils lack desks in class.”
Source: Kasapafmonline.com
