Gov’t secure $75m to arrest poor BECE results

Government has secured about 75 million dollars from Global Partnership on Education to help resolve poor performance in certain districts in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

This move is among a series of interventions to haut the poor performance recorded in the BECE examination. Deputy Minister of Education Mahama Ayariga disclosed this on the floor of Parliament when he appeared before the house to answer questions on what the government is doing to breach the education gab between rural and urban schools in Ghana.

The Deputy Minister of Education further indicated that analyses of the regions and districts that have performed poorly are underway in order to tackle their needs urgently.

Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament for Sekondi Papa Owusu Ankomah is asking the education ministry to ensure that some targets are set to breach the gap between the urban and rural areas in terms of performance.