Education in Ghana : Improving Equity, Efficiency and Accountability of Education Service Delivery
The purpose of this report is to provide sound analytical foundations for strategic planning and sector dialogue between education policy makers, development partners and civil society representatives at a key turning point in the development of ed...
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okr-10986-30122021-04-23T14:02:06Z Education in Ghana : Improving Equity, Efficiency and Accountability of Education Service Delivery World Bank ACCOUNTABILITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ENROLLMENT LIMITED LEARNING OUTCOMES PUBLIC BUDGET SCALE OF EDUCATION SERVICES The purpose of this report is to provide sound analytical foundations for strategic planning and sector dialogue between education policy makers, development partners and civil society representatives at a key turning point in the development of education in Ghana. During the last five years, access has radically improved. As the Government of Ghana (GOG) refines its economic development and poverty reduction agendas, it has become increasingly clear that better quality learning and increased educational attainment across the country are essential part of that agenda. After six years of accelerated growth in the sector, the Government and the stakeholders have come to the conclusion that an earlier strategic plan needs to be revised for a number of reasons. Extensive growth seems to have reached a point after which the scale of education services cannot be stretched too far. Gross admission rate to primary education is over a hundred percent, gross enrollment rate at primary level is in the upper 90 percentile, upper secondary provisions reached the maximum capacity within the available infrastructure, the sector employs about 40 percent of the total civil service and uses about a third of the public budget. In the meantime, persistent problems (including out-of-school children) and newly emerging issues (including widening disparities and limited learning outcomes) require new solutions. Further build-up of the system is unlikely. Attending to the challenges requires a new definition of performance by focusing on more equitable and more efficient services, more informed policies and strengthened accountability. 2012-03-19T10:27:10Z 2012-03-19T10:27:10Z 2010-02-23 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000386194_20120210030644 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3012 English Africa education country status report CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Economic & Sector Work :: Other Education Study Africa West Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Ghana |
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The purpose of this report is to provide
sound analytical foundations for strategic planning and
sector dialogue between education policy makers, development
partners and civil society representatives at a key turning
point in the development of education in Ghana. During the
last five years, access has radically improved. As the
Government of Ghana (GOG) refines its economic development
and poverty reduction agendas, it has become increasingly
clear that better quality learning and increased educational
attainment across the country are essential part of that
agenda. After six years of accelerated growth in the sector,
the Government and the stakeholders have come to the
conclusion that an earlier strategic plan needs to be
revised for a number of reasons. Extensive growth seems to
have reached a point after which the scale of education
services cannot be stretched too far. Gross admission rate
to primary education is over a hundred percent, gross
enrollment rate at primary level is in the upper 90
percentile, upper secondary provisions reached the maximum
capacity within the available infrastructure, the sector
employs about 40 percent of the total civil service and uses
about a third of the public budget. In the meantime,
persistent problems (including out-of-school children) and
newly emerging issues (including widening disparities and
limited learning outcomes) require new solutions. Further
build-up of the system is unlikely. Attending to the
challenges requires a new definition of performance by
focusing on more equitable and more efficient services, more
informed policies and strengthened accountability. |
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Economic & Sector Work :: Other Education Study |
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World Bank |
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World Bank |
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Education in Ghana : Improving Equity, Efficiency and Accountability of Education Service Delivery |
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Education in Ghana : Improving Equity, Efficiency and Accountability of Education Service Delivery |
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Education in Ghana : Improving Equity, Efficiency and Accountability of Education Service Delivery |
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Education in Ghana : Improving Equity, Efficiency and Accountability of Education Service Delivery |
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Education in Ghana : Improving Equity, Efficiency and Accountability of Education Service Delivery |
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education in ghana : improving equity, efficiency and accountability of education service delivery |
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World Bank |
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2012 |
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