The Foundation Dean of the School of Education and Life Long Learning at the SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, (SDD-UBIDS), Professor Mohammed Hadi Abdul-Ganiy Bolaji, has observed that inadequate resourcing of education is a major challenge of basic education in Ghana.
He said much of the funding goes into compensation rather than the provision of infrastructure and teaching and learning materials.
Prof Bolaji said this during the opening of the 30th Annual Conference of Directors of Education held in Wa.
“The budgetary allocation to the Ministry of Education has been experiencing substantial decline.
The allocation to the ministry since 2016 has seen an annual rate of 20 percent which is upset by inflation”, he observed.
He also said the education system in the country is crippled by the quest of the actors of education to see their children pass in the easy way.
Prof Bolaji noted that some politicians, parents and teachers provide question papers for their children rather than buying the necessary teaching and learning materials for them.
According to him some teachers are also complicit in mobilizing money from students to aid them to cheat in exams which is also encouraging laziness among the children and adversely affecting the education sector.
“The Ghanaian education system is engulfed in an abstention with grades and scoring rather than learning.
The government purchased 400,000 set of examination papers for the first batch of SHS. This was a big miscalculation when students needed textbooks”, he added.
The professor also identified excessive political interference in the educational system as affecting education in the country.
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