The Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has revealed that over 364, 762 public schools and pupils in the Northern region lack desks to sit on for learning purposes.
According to a report cited noted that 80% of pupils in kindergarten, making a hundred and four thousand, four hundred and forty-five (104, 445) children, did not have desks per data provided by the Ministry of Education.
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The report further revealed that “70% (213,352) of Primary, and 50% (46, 965) of JHS pupils did not have desks in their schools.
Schools under trees have featured in almost every party manifesto yet, they are rampant in the country. Authorities have played politics with the education system in Ghana worsening the future of the country.
Eduwatch is therefore calling on the minister of education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, and the regional minister, Alhaji Shani Alhassan Saibu, to intervene in the disturbing situation.
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