PRIVATE EDUCATION IN GHANA
-GNACOPS to the rescue
Just when more private senior high schools in Ghana are about giving up on their over 60years invaluable contributions to the socio-economic development of the country due to collapse and job losses, a saviour has emerged.
Unlike the Ghanaian National Association of Private Schools(GNAPS) which is like a socialisation group limited by shares and made up of proprietors/proprietresses only who, per the new educational reforms, do not have the locus to internally regulate private education and better engage the government, the National Council of Private Schools(GNACOPS) is the first ever internal regulatory body made up of owners, heads, teachers and parents, and has made history as the first private regulatory educational body to meet a sitting president of Ghana on the advancement of the sector.
Speaking on Obuasi-based Shaft 98.1 News@6pm on Thursday, February 07, the National Executive Director(NED) of GNACOPS, Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah, disclosed that within their one year of existence, it is refreshing to hear that from 2020, all things being equal, 50% of the Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) registration fee will be absorbed by the government.
The council has also partnered the Ghanaian Library Authority(GLA) to provide library vans to go round all private schools in the country to stock those without libraries with books.
Further, plans are in place for the government to consider the private sector in the Free/Double-Track Senior High School(SHS) system.
Mr. Gyetuah also revealed that the about 800,000 untrained teachers with the over 22,000 private schools across the country will be given the opportunities to get trained for teaching licences as required by the government before being re-engaged as staff.
This is towards the attaining of the Sustainable Development Goal(SDG) 4 on Quality Education by 2030.
Early on, the director of Joy Standard Schools in Kumasi, Stephen Donkor, had, on the same media platform, raised such troubling concerns which GNACOPS has come to address.
GNACOPS has, therefore, extended invitation to all private schools who have not joined to do so in their best interest.
GNACOPS leadership comprises national directors, regional coordinators and local supervisors.
✍🏽: Osei Kuffour
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