The General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mr David Ofori Acheampong, has said the various teacher unions in the country would resist any attempt by the government to impose the privatization of Basic Management under the Ghana Partnership School project in September this year.
Even though the government has explained it does not intend to privatize public basic schools under the controversial Ghana Partnership School (GPS) policy, the various teacher unions think otherwise.
The initiative, which seeks to create a partnership between government and private entities to take over the management of some public schools, has received a lot of backlash from stakeholders in the past few weeks.
Even before the date for the implementation of the initiative, interested parties such as teacher unions have threatened a massive demonstration against the government if it proceeds with the plan.
The unions justified their opposition, saying that they had not been consulted in the planning of the project.
He although the government had the right to implement policies in the nations' education, there was the need for the government to do broader consultation with all stakeholders to ensure that the right thing would be done in the interest of the nation.
The meeting was aimed at interacting with the head teachers on the current state of educational issues in the country and the position of the association.
In attendance were 544 head teachers from the Kumasi Metropolis and Asokore Mampong Municipality all in the Ashanti region.
Govt not handing over public schools to private operators - Adutwum
Meanwhile, the government through a Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has explained that it has not taken a decision to hand over public schools to private operators.
In a radio interview with Accra based Citi FM on Thursday, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum said the government has no intention to hand over the management of basic schools to private individuals.
Source: Graphic.com
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STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION FOR SUCH VISIONARY EFFORT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED. AFTER ALL GOVT IS NOT BOUND TO TAKE ALL THE PROPOSALS FROM THE STAKEHOLDERS. MOST TIMES IT IS BETTER TO WIDEN THE SCOPE OF CONSULTATIONS BEFORE MAJOR POLICIES ARE INITIATED.
We have always called on our policy makers to decentralize our institutional structures. Unfortunately, anytime a move is made to achieve the very purpose we demand we find the very people who should support to implement the policy resisting. The call for partnership in education is laudable to save and improve the education system of the nation. The idea would make the communities and local authorities to see more of the schools in their jurisdiction as their own. It will enable them to take good care of them and support the well-being of the schools. It is ridiculousss for any sensiblle person who would like to see better education for the next generation to resist such visionary effort.