District directors of Education sign performance agreement

Koforidua (Eastern Region), 22nd July 99 --

Fifteen District Directors of Education in the Eastern Region yesterday signed a performance agreement with the regional Directorate of Education.

The agreement was to ensure that the district directors efficiently utilise resources provided them to achieve realistic objectives in the educational sector in the districts.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Mr Jacob M. Bagonluri, Director of Special Duties at the headquarters of the Ghana Education Service (GES), said in future, the signing of performance agreements would be extended to heads of schools and institutions.

He explained that, under the process, the district directors of education would be expected to hold their circuit supervisors accountable while the circuit supervisors would be expected to hold the head-teachers accountable for their performance.

This will ensure that the achievement of the district as a whole meet targets agreed on at the beginning of the year.

Mr. Bagonluri further explained that the targets were derived from some prioritised national standard output that the GES, as an entity, has identified within the policy direction of the Ministry of Education and the first medium-term development plan of the Ghana government.

To this effect, he said 85.7 per cent of GES's resources have been decentralised for non-salary expenditure.

Mr Bagonluri said under the new arrangement, headteachers have been given petty cash to enable them to manage their schools more efficiently by undertaking minor repairs of classrooms and furniture, improvement of sanitation and the provision of teaching and learning materials in their schools.

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