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Samer Al-Samarrai, Marie Evane Tamagnan1 Introduced in 2016, the Fee-Free Basic Education Program (FBEP) is the government’s flagship policy to expand equitable access to basic education. Evidence shows that policies of this kind increase educational access and lead to significant economic and social benefits. In Ghana, children that received fee-free education were much more likely to complete secondary school and had much higher earnings than children that were not part of the program. In...
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Samer Al-Samarrai, Marie Evane Tamagnan1 Introduced in 2016, the Fee-Free Basic Education Program (FBEP) is the government’s flagship policy to expand equitable access to basic education. Evidence shows that policies of this kind increase educational access and lead to significant economic and social benefits. In Ghana, children that received fee-free education were much more likely to complete secondary school and had much higher earnings than children that were not part of the program. In...
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Technology is perceived as a vital driving force for contemporary education. The Government of Ghana acknowledges the relevance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education, and it is financing ICT in secondary schools. However, most instructors are unwilling to integrate ICT into their teaching. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence secondary school teachers' ICT usage in schools. The participants were 376 teachers randomly...
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The colleges of education in Ghana have been involved in a continuous professional development for over four years with support of Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL). The main purpose of this research was to assess the perceived impact of the continuous professional programme on physics teaching at the colleges of education. Descriptive cross sectional survey was used for the study. An online survey was conducted which was completed by 85 physics tutors. The survey data were...
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Africa’s transition to an innovation-led, knowledge-based economy could drive the continent’s economic growth and lift millions out of poverty and there is opportunity to increase the number of skilled professionals across the chemistry, biology and physics disciplines. However not enough students enrol in science subjects in Higher Education in Ghana, with proportions admitted to public universities well short of the Government’s 60% target. Significant barriers for all young people include...
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In order to deliver public services, governments must allocate scarce human and financial resources across their territories, yet there is little systematic evidence on the productivity of these inputs or allocative efficiency with which governments allocate them. We study this by leveraging a unique panel dataset of service delivery, health outcomes, and human and financial inputs in the universe of over 5,000 public health facilities in Ghana. Our research design allows us to estimate the...
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Communications for DevelopmentFink, G., Karlan, D., Udry, C., & Osei, R. - 2019 - Harvard Dataverse
In 2012, Ghana Health Services (GHS), with funding from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), launched a Communication for Development (C4D)...
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The Open University and the Ministry of Education (Ghana) have launched a programme to promote the effective teaching of practical science in Senior High Schools. Open STEM Africa: Ghana, is aimed at improving practical teaching and learning of science and in particular providing support for under-qualified or inexperienced science teachers, in line with the government of Ghana’s education policy.
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Countries are investing in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and educating their citizens for effective ICT utilization. The attainment of the anticipated benefits hinges on effective integration of ICT in various levels of education. Effective integration of ICT requires...
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This is pdf of a country list with HDI, iHDI, MPI and Gini. This file is now superseeded by DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3908363, see https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/55A44ZRB (which will also be available as a data file).
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The document contains the keyword inventory used for automated searching. This file is now superseeded by DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3908363, see https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/55A44ZRB.
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Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also that educational outcomes in developing countries are shaped by political as well as socio-economic and other factors. The Politics of Education in Developing Countries focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment...
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Since 1997, the government of Tanzania has made several attempts at introducing technology into education. However, despite these efforts technology has not become integrated into educational practice. A main reason is that teachers do not embrace the use of technology in their teaching. This study was initiated to design, implement and evaluate a professional development arrangement aimed at promoting teachers’ use of technology in their teaching practice. The study started with a ‘proof of...
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Building on Ghana's achievements in expanding education, this plan puts Ghana on the road towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and represents a deliberate reorientation towards this aim, as it replaces the previous ESP 2010-2020.
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Building on Ghana's achievements in expanding education, the Education Strategic Plan sets out the vision and policies for realizing the ambition of transforming Ghana into a ‘learning nation'. It puts Ghana on the road towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and represents a deliberate reorientation towards this aim, as it replaces the previous ESP for 2010-2020. This plan not only sets the long-term vision but also how this will be operationalized in the medium term through the...
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A Reform Secretariat has been formed at the Ministry of Education to ensure that all the agencies and bodies directly...