Government has revealed plans to spend at least seventy million dollars ($75 million) annually for the next five years to encourage reading among students.
The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, in an interview with Citi News said the plan will complement government’s e-textbook policy to improve student literacy in the country.
He said the amount will be used to procure more text books and build the capacities of teachers to enable them carry out their duties satisfactorily.
Mr. Ablakwa said the training will be geared towards encouraging students to read more.
“We are making the right investment in terms of building capacities of these teachers and providing text books. The President’s e-textbook and tablets agenda is going to be complementary to this.”
The Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessment conducted by the Ghana Education Service (GEC), recently revealed that ninety percent of pupils cannot read or understand what they write.
But according to Okudzeto Ablakwa, the trend will be reversed when the policies are fully rolled out.
‘Gov’t worried pupils can’t read or write’
Government has said it was worried about findings in the Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessment report last year, that showed a poor performance by pupils in literacy and numeracy tests.
Mr. Ablakwa said government is determined to overcome challenges currently confronting basic education in the country.
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How will this be accounted for? How can we measure, evaluate, monitor and verify the use and misuse of this funds? What will be the basis of its expenditure? We are talking about $75million a year for 5 years to improve 'reading culture'. This is a bogus create-share-loot issue and should be stopped. This is how the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament will come out to say the money was squandered and there is nothing to show for it,
They will give the contract to look for authors, write and print books, then distribute books, etc....only for us to realize 4 years later that there were never any books to begin with! Meanwhile they will be laughing all the way to the bank!
Stealers, Stealers, Stealers... OMG. Such a visionless government. How are they going to measure the success of spending the $75M??? And what will be the impact on the economy?
JEZUZ.....hei y3wu...the better we boot this people out the better for this country....reading k3k3....dem just go share the money to dem selves
75 million DOLLARS every year to promote reading? Awurade, yawu oo... Another avenue for create , loot and share?? Oh, thanks be to God that by the next year that he's talking about, this INCOMPETENT gov't will br no more! just hoping they don't borrow and share the money b4 Jan 2017. God help Ghana!!
MORE CREAT.E, LOO.T AND SHARE BY THE CORRUP.T JOHN MAHAMA AND HIS NDC PARTY. VOTE THE NDC THIEVE.S, THUG.S AND LIAR.S OUT BEFORE GHANA IS DESTROYED.