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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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The use of technology has gained worldwide recognition in all professions. Teachers have resorted to several technology tools to enhance the work they do in the classroom and to facilitate the understanding of what they teach their students to enhance easy recall and for students to remember what they learn in class. The use of technology tools in the classroom in Ghana has not received much attention from teachers because of challenges with respect to technological infrastructural...
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We assessed the impacts of a teacher professional development program for public and private kindergartens in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. We examined impacts on teacher professional well-being, classroom quality, and children’s readiness during one school year. This cluster-randomized trial included 240 schools (teachers N ¼ 444; children N ¼ 3,345, Mage ¼ 5.2) randomly assigned to one of three conditions: teacher training (TT), teacher training plus parental-awareness meetings...
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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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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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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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Funded by Dubai Cares, Train for Tomorrow (T4T) is a US$ 2 million remote teacher training project in Ghana’s Eastern Region .
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The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Six (MICS 6) was conducted in 2017/18 by Ghana Statistical Service in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Education Service as part of the Global MICS Programme. Technical support was provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with government funding and financial support of...
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Ghana has started the process of developing a new Digital Strategy Policy, that's according to the Ministry of Communications. Currently, the Ministry has a 2012 Broadband Policy and an outdated Telecoms policy.
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Ghana’s Education Sector Analysis (ESA) 2018 provides an objective assessment of the state of education in the country. It has been produced to inform the finalization of the Education Sector Plan (ESP) 2018–2030 and to ensure a broad evidence base for future policymaking.
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