Dr. Prince Armah, Executive Director of VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, shares his perspective on the WAEC exams leakage in Ghana on Point Blank (Eyewitness News) on Citi 97.3 fm. 

WAEC Exams Leakage

We estimated that the abolishing of the allowance system would help government to save up to Ghc12 million monthly to improve educational infrastructure across the country. Per this estimate, the introduction of the student loan scheme, which replaced the allowances, and consistent with what pertains in all other tertiary institutions that train teachers, has created the opportunity for Government to save over GHC 280 million over the last two years that would have been paid to teacher trainees.  President John Mahama confirmed this when he addressed a cross section of students of the University of Education, Winneba as part of his ‘Accounting to the People tour’ in the Central region.  In his speech, the President revealed that “government will be able to plough back the Ghc282 million that would have been paid to teacher trainees in expanding education so that we can employ more teachers”. We are happy to see VIAM Africa’s recommendations being implemented. We are however requesting that government states clearly the specific projects that the money will be used for. 

Government must account for GHS 282 million saved from scrapped teachers' allowance

Few months ago, the Ghana Education Service (GES) posted on their website (www.gespostings.net) an advertisement meant to recruit teachers to teach English, Mathematics, Science and Geography at the Senior High School level. As part of the application process, applicants were requested to submit a passport picture and scanned certificate. They were also asked about their teaching experience when filling the online application form. All these were supposed to be submitted before 21st March, 2016. Given the recent recruitment scams that have been recorded in the country, using technology-oriented recruitment approach appears laudable and novel. This also affords every qualified teacher an equal chance of applying and being potentially selected for any vacant position in the GES....

GES EXPLOITING “DESPERATE” UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE TEACHERS

Dr. Armah addressing issues affecting the educational sector of Ghana

PBB - VIAM AFRICA

 A bill to convert  the 10 polytechnics into technical universities has been passed into law by parliament. These universities are to train the next industrial human resources for the nation. The Executive Director Dr. Prince Armah presented VIAM Africa's position on the matter at Joy Fm's poly forum. All the penel members including the Dep Minister, Hon Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa agreed with Dr Armah that we've got the fundamentals wrong and that the government should go back to the drawing board to address the structural weaknesses of TVET at the pre tertiary level. 

JOY POLY FORUM 06-09-2016

The Institute for Education Studies, Accra, (formerly VIAM Africa) was founded in August 2013. Established as an independent policy and research institute, the IFEST was launched with the principal aim of better informing public debate on contemporary education issues in order to promote the development of effective research, policy and practices. Through the establishment of rigorous advocacy campaign during its initial years, in both the print and electronic (radio and TV) media, the IFEST successfully opened up debate about education policy to a wider audience and influenced much policy decision making.

The Institute for Education Studies

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