We’re shocked you’re sideling GES – IFEST to Education Ministry
The education think tank, Institute for Education Studies (IFEST) has bemoaned how the Education Ministry is rendering the Ghana Education Service ineffective.
IFEST explains that the Ministry of Education has not involved the GES in key developments in the sector such as the National Standard Test (NST), School Calendar, and the Recruitment of Heads of STEM schools.
It also states that it cannot understand how Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP) could be purported to have been carried out without the explicit knowledge and involvement of the GES.
“The conversation on the GALOP Teacher Training issue clearly cements our proposition that the Ministry of education is gradually juggling the role of policy formulation and implementing agency this presents the GES as inefficient.
“It is clear from the correspondence from the World Bank, The GES and the Press Statements from the Ministry that the GES which is mandated to undertake this teacher training exercise was sidelined in the entire process,” Executive Director for IFEST, Peter Anti disclosed in a statement dated May 30, 2022.
He continued: “It is clear from the events mentioned that it seems the Ministry of Education is consciously or unconsciously weakening the GES with its constant acts. It is important to point out that GES needs to be efficient, effective and inspiring in the delivery of its mandates.
“Any attempt to continue on this path by the Ministry of Education will kill morale within the GES and put the implementation of a lot of policies in the education sector, especially at the Pre-Tertiary level in complete disarray as it has been witnessed in some instances. Already, the World Bank has bemoaned the slow implementation of the GALOP projects.”
