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The private sector education in Ghana is the most robust and reliable machinery for effective education delivery for all ages. Private schools have been in the educational system for a very long time and have contributed to the progress of Ghana's education delivey with much emphasis on academic excellence, creative exposures, sporting disciplines and religious and moral upbringing of students.
The mastering of the National curriculum and representing the quality-based education community in Ghana is one of the things easily found in private schools in Ghana.
Parents' commitment towards their wards schooling opportunities is exeptional and needs commendation.
As we speak, current statistics available to the GHANA NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS -GNACOPS indicates that there are over 22,000 basic private schools across the length and breath of the country.
Every Admission year , 90% of new students who are directly admitted into various Universities in this country had their basic education in private schools. There are over 600,000 teachers that have been also employed by this sector and 80% of the total work force are 'UNTRAINED' TEACHERS. These people are mostly the graduates from Senior High Schools with WASSCE CERTIFICATES who have been employed so they'll be able to earn and save some money between six months to nine months in order to continue their education. Others also stay for 3 academic years as they enroll themselves in various distance courses to upgrade themselves.
Records available to the council indicate that over 90% of distance education students who are pursuing diploma courses in education are teachers from private schools who work and use their weekly and monthly stipends to cater for their course fees.
The current education reforms in Ghana demands that these people be LAID OFF by private schools as they don't qualify to be employed and that employing them poses a legal challenge to anyone who employs them. Instead, it's been made clear that only
professional and licenced teachers who have done their NATIONAL SERVICE AND HAVE BEEN ISSUED WITH CERTIFICATES, SAT FOR AND PASSED LICENSURE EXAMS ORGANIZED BY NATIONAL TEACHING COUNCIL (NTC) qualify.
As part of the COUNCIL'S burden to upgrade the operations of private schools in the country and help the private education sector meet the requisite demands of national education reforms, so that the currently untrained teaching staff would be able to teach and upgrade themselves in the short-term and avoid being part of about 400,000 UNTRAINED TEACHERS TO BE LAID OFF, CREATING A HUGE UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION FOR THE COUNTRY,
THE GHANA NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS -GNACOPS HAS COME OUT WITH A PROGRAM CALLED
GNACOPS' VOLUNTEERS SERVICE SCHEME (GVSS) TO REGISTER ALL PRIVATE SCHOOLS TEACHERS WHO ARE NOT TRAINED, AS VOLUNTEERS to render voluntary service to the private education sector for 4 years and in the process, receive structured allowance from the Council through GNACOPS' DONORS FUND (GDF).
The program seeks to solve the following
1.To avoid the mass unemployment situation the educational reform would create for Ghana economy.
2. To help young Ghanaian enroll and
upgrade their education.
3.To solve the long lasting problem of untrained teachers in the private sector education delivey.
4. To have a reliable and accurate database for workers in private schools for future planning in the country.
5. To increase capacity building for professionalism, standardization, monitoring and boost quality education delivery in private schools in Ghana.
The Council is calling upon all stakeholders in education delivery for assistance in creating public awareness for this flaship program.
Thank you
Enoch kwasi Gyetuah
National Executive Director
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