21st January 2025 8:25:36 AM
2 mins readEducation Minister-designate, Haruna Iddrisu, has vowed to address the gaps in educational opportunities and infrastructure between northern and southern Ghana.
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The Tamale South MP emphasized the importance of ensuring fairness, quality, and broad inclusion within the country's education system.
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He made these comments during his vetting before Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday, January 20, 2025.
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“It’s important to recognize that as a country, there is a north-south divide when it comes to access to education,” Haruna Iddrisu noted.
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"The first school was established in the south in 1876, but in the north, we only got ours around 1951. This historical gap has created a deficit that must be addressed.”
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He noted the rise in participation rates in the north due to the Free Senior High School policy, attributing it to poverty as a major hindrance to obtaining quality education.
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"So you can imagine the gap and the deficit even Achimota School around 1924 at the time that Tamale Secondary School, which became the first in the north. We will work to close that gap. Indeed, even for the implementation of the Free Senior High School, it is noted that the participation rate is very high in Northern Ghana," he added.
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"It explains that poverty likely hindered many from accessing education. The focus now should be on quality, equality, and equity,” he said.
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The Minister-designate shared troubling statistics about the infrastructure shortages in northern Ghana, as well as in the Oti and Western North regions. He emphasized a gap of about 5,000 facilities across basic, junior high, and senior high schools in these regions.
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With the president’s confidence in his leadership, Haruna Iddrisu committed to taking decisive action to rectify these inequalities.
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