Former Deputy Minister of Education, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, has criticised the government’s proposed National Education Forum, calling it a waste of Ghana’s precious resources.
The National Education Forum engagements will open on Tuesday, February 18 and climax with a two-day validation conference from Thursday, February 27, in Accra.
The engagements will take off in the Volta Regional capital, Ho, after which the first zonal engagement for the Volta and Oti regions will start before it moves to other regions.
In an interview Fordjour questioned the necessity of the forum and emphasised the need for the Mahama administration to implement its proposed education policies.
He added that the president made specific promises to voters regarding the education sector, and what is now expected is the translation of those manifesto promises into actionable policies.
Fordjour highlighted key expectations from the public, including the continuation and extension of the Free SHS policy to private schools, payment of first-year fees for tertiary students in public institutions, and the cancellation of the double-track system.
