In accordance to him, her impeccable report is infinite and her get to throughout many sectors is overwhelmingly outstanding.
He explained he “was happy when just one of her sterling contributions to academia and health and fitness care as my Minister for Schooling sequenced the genome of the virus, which brings about Coronavirus sickness. I am referring to the institution of the West African Centre for Mobile Biology of Infectious Pathogens.”
Talking at an celebration in Accra to outside Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as his jogging mate on Monday, July 27, 2020, Mahama claimed Prof. Opoku Agyemang foremost the transformation of the academic sector as the Minister of Education and learning supervised the achievement of many good feats that make me proud to be working with her.
Touting the achievements of the NDC managing mate, Mahama said “She converted Polytechnics into fully-fledged Specialized Universities, supervised the upgrading of the Faculties of Training into tertiary establishments and led the negotiations that secured the Entire world Lender funding for the flagship Secondary Instruction Enhancement Project (SEIP) that saw the significant upgrading of services in Senior Substantial Educational institutions and the construction of 23 Group Day Senior Substantial Faculties.
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“Additionally, amenities in 50 considerably less endowed Senior High Colleges and 75 beneath-doing Senior Significant Universities have been upgraded.
“Doing the job with the educational unions and regular authorities, teacher absenteeism was minimized through her tenure from 27% to 7%. Naana Jane also improved the high quality of standard education and learning which resulted in Ghana’s all-time ideal BECE effectiveness, introduced the personal BECE, and recruited 2,400 mathematics and science instructors as a exclusive intervention to make improvements to instructing and finding out at the Senior Secondary stage.
“She also accomplished Ghana’s total greatest executing WASSCE nation award by WAEC for four consecutive a long time when she served as Minister.
“In the course of the time period of her tenure, the Ministry of Education engaged additional than 40,000 newly recruited academics.
“As you will all remember, we abolished the quota technique at the Schools of Training, leading to an improve in enrolment from 9,000 to 15,400, building additional educating opportunities for our youth.
“It was beneath Professor Opoku-Agyemang that lecturers have been immediately posted without the need of Countrywide Services and Licensure Examinations.”
He said the environment acknowledges and equally celebrates her including that it “is the actuality that she is an achiever of unquestionable integrity, a resourceful and outcomes-pushed chief.”
