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GHANA PRIORITIES IN THE NEWS
Ghana has made great strides to improve its education system in the past decades, with near-universal primary school enrolment and equal access to schooling between boys and girls. However, as in many other developing countries, the quality of education is still a critical challenge. In a 2016 assessment, 45% and 30% of 4th graders could not meet minimum standards in mathematics and English.
An article published in Daily Graphic reports on a new research paper that highlights actions to improve the quality of learning in schools .
 The research paper is released by Ghana Priorities, a collaboration between the National Development Planning Commission and Copenhagen Consensus.
Festus Ebo Turkson and Priscilla Twumasi Baffour from the University of Ghana and Brad Wong of Copenhagen Consensus studied two interventions designed to improve learning levels in Ghanaian schools: an expansion of Ghana’s School Feeding Program (GSFP), and a pedagogical approach called ‘Teaching at the Right Level’.
With societal benefits between 5 and 8 cedis for every cedi invested, these are powerful tools to improve Ghana's schools.
You can read the full newspaper article here.
I will keep you informed with additional updates from this project.
Kind regards
Ralph Nordjo, Ph.D.
About the Project:
Ghana Priorities, a partnership between the National Development Planning Commission and Copenhagen Consensus Center, is working with stakeholders across the country to identify, analyse, and prioritise the smartest solutions to Ghana's challenges. It has commissioned some of the best economists in Ghana and the world to calculate the social, environmental and economic costs and benefits of policy proposals. Research papers in the project deal with everything from health challenges to boosting agricultural performance, from education to strengthening the industrial sector.
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