PUBLIC MISINFORMATION ON THE REMOVAL OF RELIGIOUS AND MORAL EDUCATION (RME) FROM THE 2019/2020 DRAFT CURRICULUM. GNACOPS EDUCATES PUBLIC.

The Ghana National Council of private schools, GNACOPS has received numerous calls from managers of member schools seeking clarification on the recent speculations about the removal of Religious and Moral Education as a subject from the proposed 2019-2020 curriculum which is under review.

The speculations has it that the National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NACCA) has proposal for the removal of Religious and Moral Education (RME) from the Basic School curriculum.

Many people including Educationists, the clergy and other well-meaning organisations have kicked against the     proposal with the claim that RME has been a traditional means used over the years for character formation and transformation in schools and urged Government not to cancel it.

The Councils' Training and Research department upon a critical study of the proposed curriculum is of the view that,
the information which is totally false and misleading is born out of a lack of understanding of current trends in education delivery.

The   research department wish to point out that, education delivery.
Especially in the 21st century, has become a dynamic machinery that always focus on the learning outcomes and put the interest of the learner first. The ongoing basic Education curriculum reforms is focusing on total child development thereby targeting content delivery that has great potentials in    the transformation of the child.

In the draft, Proposed Subjects/Learning areas for Kindergarten and Primary Level by    the National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NACCA), sighted by the Ghana      National Council of Private Schools research team, RME among other subjects such as Citizenship Education have been integrated to form a universally applied subjected  “Our World and Our People”.
With respect to this, curriculum mapping and curriculum integration approaches have    been adopted by NACCA to be abreast with modern strategies in the drafting of the proposed curriculum having its content in line with the contexts of 21st century educational delivery.

To this end, the council would like to allay the fears of all interested parties by making them aware that unlike the previous curriculum where Religious and Moral Education was a stand-alone subject with no bearing on other areas of study, in the proposed curriculum, it has been integrated with other civic and culturally related subject to make it more meaningful and practical to the learner. The council is therefore calling on the general public to give the instructions and experts in curriculum development the maximum     support to develop a well-meaning curriculum that would enhance and promote educational delivery in the country.


Find attached is a draft of the NaCCA 2018 proposed Curriculum:

Proposed Learning Areas/Themes for KG1- KG2 are:
Numeracy
Language and Literacy
Creative Arts
Our World and Our People (Themes based on our Environment, History, RME, Science, Citizenship)
Physical Education

Proposed Upper Primary School Subjects/Learning Areas for B1 – B3

Numeracy
Language and Literacy
Creative Arts
History
Science (Agric)
Our World and Our People (Geography, RME, Citizenship Education, Computing)
Physical Education

Proposed Upper Primary School Subjects/Learning Areas for B4 – B6
Numeracy
Language and Literacy
Science (including Agric)
Creative Arts
History
Our World and Our People (RME, Citizenship Education, Geography)
Computing
Physical Education

Dr.Jectey Narko-Mantey
Director- GNACOPS.
Research and Training Department

GHANA NATIONAL COUNCILS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS (GNACOPS) LAUNCHES WEB APPLICATION TO PUT PRIVATE SCHOOLS INTO DIGITIZED ADDRESS SYSTEM AND PAPERLESS

PRESS RELEASE TO ALL MEDIA HOUSES
 
Private Education in Ghana has incalculably increased in numbers, enrollment, facilities and human resources with the sole aim of providing substantial quality education delivery in Ghana.
A reliable record which was made known to the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo-Addo in recent meeting by the council show that, there are over 22,000 Private Basic Schools in the country representing 36.5% of total Basic Education delivery in Ghana.

With this increasing rate of Private Education in Ghana, GNACOPS has come out confidently to redefine the alarming phase of private schools through regulations, innovations and technology designs to empower and develop the ambit of private schools community to suit intercontinental standards in education delivery.

As part of solving some of the bedeviling challenges in the phase of Private Education in Ghana, the Data Management and Logistic Directorate of the Councils in partnership with SmartSchool-Networks which is subsidiary software development wing of Notify African Company has launched a web based application dubbed “GNACOPS-DATA” that seeks to solve the unavailable accurate database for private schools by digitizing exact schools’ locations and creating reliable comprehensive database for the private schools community in Ghana.
 
Speaking to the press, the National Director of Logistics and Data Management, Mr. Timothy Gyebi expressed his greatly satisfaction for achieving this legacy for the Private Education Community and the Country entirely, he said any reflective decision making in this world today of science and technology advancement is mostly made by accurate facts from reliable database sources, where references can be made to support advocacy, planning, budgeting for improvement in socio-economic development.

He therefore optimistically said, by this database developed the council would factually broaden its advocacy potency and seek support from many organizations both locally and foreign to assist the private schools in terms of infrastructure expansions, capacity building programs, financial aids and supply of teaching and learning materials which is a good indication to revamp the phase of private education in Ghana.

He further advised the private schools owners to feed the system with accurate figures as they register their institutions’ facilities to help have reliable platform to augment the operations of the councils with dependable source of information to represent the private schools.

Mr. Timothy Gyebi in conclusion therefore called upon the government to partner the councils through the sector ministry in the areas of monitoring to regulate the unimpeded activities of the private schools in the country.
The Chief Executive Officer, of Notify Africa Company and a lead Software Developer, Mr. Mensah Hughes Samuel said, he is so passionate about the innovative solutions the council has brought to aid the identity of private schools in Ghana.
He added that with this web solution all activities that require paper works are now going to be paperless; according to him schools can log in to www.gnacopsgh.com to register their institution and get MEMBERSHIP ID, SCHOOL CODE AND APPROVED CERTIFICATE, apply to GNACOPS VOLUNTEERS SERVICE SCHEME and get their approval instantly and also applicants can register as volunteers and get their APPOINTMENT LETTERS AND ID CARD instant
. 
Thank you.
Signed...
Samuel Nyamekye
National PRO 0548470808