Ministry of Education, Science and Sports

Mission Statement
The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports exists to carry out the Government's vision of using quality education delivery to accelerate the nation's socio economic development through the following action plan:

1. Expanding access to education at all level of education
2. Providing and improving infrastructural facilities
3. Raising the quality of teaching and learning for effective outcomes
4. Making education more relevant to national goals and aspiration by focusing on vocational and technical education
5. Making tertiary education more cost effective.

Aims and Objectives
The overall goal of the Ministry is to provide relevant and quality education for all Ghanaians especially the disadvantaged to enable them acquire skills which will make them functionally literate and productive to facilitate poverty alleviation and promote the rapid socio-economic growth of the country.

Achievements
Resources allocation towards the FCUBE programme has been increased to ensure total implementation. New textbooks had been printed and distributed throughout the country. Basic and Secondary Education books covering the whole spectrum of their syllabus including additional reading supplementary books totaling 6,762,390 of various assortment has been distributed.

• Moreover, there is an ongoing programme to supply adequate furniture to all the basic schools. It is expected that, by the middle of 2003, every pupil and student in Ghana will have a desk and a chair for studies.
• In infrastructure, the Ministry has completed the construction, rebuilding and rehabilitation of 4254 structures including 44.4-unit teacher accommodation.
• The Ministry has established 20 vocational institutions throughout the country (2 institution in each region).
• Enrolment in all the levels of education has increased significantly as a result of the good policy of the Ministry. Basic schools has seen over 4.5% increase, while the secondary level between 1990-2002 saw an increase of over 4.7% while the tertiary level has seen an increase of between 10%-100% over the period 1995-2002.
• Other intervention programmes which have helped enhance effective teaching and learning were all successful.

These programmes were aimed at quality improvement in all levels of the education structure. Some of the programmes are

• Child school community processing education.
• Performance monitoring test/school performance appraisal.
• School health education programme.
• Upgrading of one Senior Secondary School in each district
• Promoting science technology and mathematics education.
• Strengthening information and communication technology
• Teacher training and development programmes
• Provision of incentives to teachers
• Accelerating promotions when it is due
• Promotion of distance education
• Provision of new infrastructure in the tertiary institution to increase their intake capacity.