{"id":25458,"date":"2019-10-27T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=25458"},"modified":"2019-10-27T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:30:06","slug":"ghanas-education-to-receive-150m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/ghanas-education-to-receive-150m\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s education to receive $150M World Bank donation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghana\u2019s education is set to be funded to the tune of $150 million by the World Bank. This donation is meant to revamp the nation\u2019s education sector by boosting the quality provided.<\/b>
\nGhana\u2019s education will be boosted, and the primary beneficiaries will be the over two million children found in the low performing basic education schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ghana\u2019s education to be boosted<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to the World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Pierre Laporte, the funding will be pivotal in enhancing the country\u2019s education system.<\/span>
\nLaporte noted:<\/span><\/p>\n

The project focuses on underserved areas and on improving the quality of education for increased human capital and supports the World Bank\u2019s twin goals of ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The funding to be received will plan an instrumental role in\u00a0 ensuring that Ghana\u2019s education attains the set strategies. Some of the World Bank\u2019s objectives entail propelling equitability, quality, and inclusivity at all education levels.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Ghana\u2019s education enhanced through GALOP<\/b><\/h2>\n

The <\/b>Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP)<\/b><\/a> has played a pivotal role in supporting learning and teaching through the provision of learning materials and modern in-service teacher training.<\/b>
\nThe donation to be attained will help strengthen school-level resources and support. Additionally, community engagement will be necessitated for prosperity purposes.\u00a0<\/span>
\nIt has also been stipulated that Ghana\u2019s human capital will be promoted through the world bank fund. Improvements in learning and teaching accountability and assessments will be ideal in this objective.<\/span>
\nAdditionally, the world bank project is founded on Ghana\u2019s Systematic Country Diagnostic that views education as the key to propelling labor productivity.\u00a0<\/b>
\nOn the other hand, <\/span>according to data released by <\/span>the African Union<\/span><\/a>, African countries have literacy levels of 70%. These statistics, therefore, show that African countries are lagging behind the global literacy rates average at 90%.<\/span>
\nThe African Union is, however, determined to change this narrative. As a result, in May 2018, it convened a continental meeting titled \u201cPromoting a Culture of Reading in Africa.\u201d It lasted for three (3) days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghana\u2019s education is set to be funded to the tune of $150 million by the World Bank. This donation is meant to revamp the nation\u2019s education sector by boosting the quality provided. Ghana\u2019s education will be boosted, and the primary beneficiaries will be the over two million children found in the low performing basic education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}