[ 2014-07-20 ]

Ghana should ensure better outcomes from public schools - Prof Adei
Accra, July 20, GNA - Professor Stephen Adei,
Former Rector of Ghana Institute of Management and
Public Administration (GIMPA), has called on
stakeholders to urgently work together to ensure
better outcome from public basic schools.

He said such outcome would be achieved through
effective decentralisation of Ghana Education
Service (GES), as well as putting school
management and communities in charge of education
and bringing quality assurance closer at the
district level.

“Public schools have a lot to learn from the
private sector with regard to management,
supervision, discipline and delivering quality
educational outcomes…The power of the private
sector is that it tends to be innovative and
creative and set the pace.

“The role of the private sector must be
acknowledged as an important partner in our
education system”, Prof Adei said during the
lunch of the Easy School find project in Accra.

Easy School find project is the latest innovation
of the Digital Education Group (DEG), the parent
Company of etoys&more.

It is designed to give parents the chance to
access schools of their choice and also to offer
schools the platform to promote their brand by
logging on to www.easyschoolfind.com.

Access to the platform would be free for all
parents and students. School authorities would
however have to pay for advertising their schools
for a reasonable fee.

Prof Adei said a major factor that could help
improve public schools outcome is the deployment
of ICT where it is ensures that schools have
access to power preferably solar and teachers and
students trained to become computer literate and
to make ICT the centre piece of learning.

“This would be opening kids to a brave new world
of global knowledge from anywhere in the
country.”

He said both the public and private schools should
move totally to ICT facilitated, students-centred
learning and opening “our kids to the brave new
world of global education. In other words the time
has come to use ICT to deliver content-making
traditional books and library less relevant”.

Prof Adei therefore commended DEG for the
easyschoolfind project, which he described as
self-serving, offering a good option to schools in
terms of advertisement.

Mr George Sackey Jr,Chief Executive Officer of DEG
said easyschoolfind has been carefully designed
out of a good feedback and rigorous development
and testing process to satisfy parents, schools
and other educational stakeholders.

“Today we are delighted to offer a unique
products, the first of its kind in Ghana and the
entire West African sub-region that offers parents
their choicest schools in a simplified and most
convenient manner, whilst at the same time
effectively marketing our schools and making them
visible and accessible globally, and ultimately
improving the overall educational standard in our
country”, Mr Sackey noted.

Ms Priscilla Adom Tawiah, Brands Manger,
Easyfschoolfind, said the search engine would
provide easy, convenient, effective and useful
electronic school search for parents, guardians,
educators and students.

“We were certain that Ghana needed such a
technological platform to relieve parents and
students of the stress associated with school
search and ultimately to improve the standard of
education in our dear nation,” she said.

Source - GNA

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