Global Partnership for Education- Importance of Education in Ghana

Education in Ghana (Importance of education in Ghana)

The Education Strategic Plan 2018-2030 is the sixth plan in the series and builds on the previous ones and on other strategic goals such as Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education, and MDGs and is aligned to the more recent Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 and the National Development Plan 2016-2057.

The ultimate goal of the plan is to ensure that education plays a critical and positive role in the national development agenda and in helping to integrate international development goals into this agenda.

The main priorities of the ESP 2018-2030 include:

Access and equity: Equal opportunity to obtain access to education, to learn and the provision of an environment that is conducive to learning and achievement of  

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learning outcomes that demonstrate fair and just assessment

Quality: Achievement of high level standards and system responsiveness at all levels of education,
Relevance: Learning, including skills development, which is responsive to individual, community and national development needs

Efficiency and effectiveness: Management of all resources that ensure value for money to achieve desired goals

Sustainability: Judicious utilization of human, financial and material resources to ensure balanced and continual development of the education system.

While the country has made considerable progress in the last decades, the education sector still faces several challenges which include attracting the remaining out-of-school children, poor learning outcomes in early grades, equity in access and learning, teacher time-on-task and deployment.

The Global Partnership for Education is the only global fund solely dedicated to education in developing countries.

Importance of education on society:
The main reasons why education is important in a society are as follows:

Education is an essential tool in every modern society because it has a long term impact on the way a society is built and developed.
It acts as a platform for imparting skills and knowledge to the entities of the society.
From a more holistic point of view, education is necessary to make human beings more rational and informed members of society.
A member of a society who is educated has the potential to contribute more to the society as compared to an uneducated member.
It also helps a person to contribute and participate in the developments that the society undergoes at different points in time.
Education is one of the core pillars of human society which play a major role in its progress.

GPE is a multi-stakeholder partnership and funding platform that aims to strengthen education systems in developing countries in order to dramatically increase the number of children who are in school and learning.