The World Bank says it validated that the Ministry of Education skilled instructors earlier than liberating price range below the Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP).
This affirmation is contained in a reaction the worldwide monetary group despatched to JoyNews.
The Education Committee of Parliament is about to probe allegations that the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum supervised GALOP at an anticipated fee of $1.2 million for a few 40,000 instructors. This follows a JoyNews research that discovered that the Ghana Education Service (GES) became ignorant of education.
The World Bank, as a part of its investigations to set up the education of the academics as claimed with the aid of using the Education Ministry, formally wrote to the Director-General of GES to affirm the stated education.
But a letter signed with the aid of using Director-General Prof Opoku-Amankwa found that he is “unaware that the sort of education has taken place.”
The letter additionally delivered that “GES is unaware of stories and correspondence among the Education Ministry and the World Bank, and is not able to make a knowledgeable reaction to the Bank’s request.”
The stated letter dated March 30, 2022, additionally requested the Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, “to recommend and offer a route to permit the GES to reply correctly to the enquiries from the World Bank.”
Speaking at the development, Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee, Dr Clement Apaak stated the united states' dangers of being blacklisted with the aid of using the World Bank have to the Minister fail to offer readability on the matter.
JoyNews’ Emefa Apawu eventually reached out to the World Bank looking to discover if the Ministry of Education has provided it with the specified statistics below the program.
The World Bank furnished the subsequent reaction;
“The World Bank would like to affirm that below the Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), financing is dispensed towards the fulfilment of pre-agreed and independently validated results.
As consistent with the protocol, the Ministry of Education furnished the information on the number of instructors skilled in the usage of distance studying methods, which have been validated with the aid of using the Development Partners’ Group and well-known with the aid of using the World Bank.
The financing became launched upon this affirmation. The World Bank stays dedicated to assisting Ghana in its efforts to enhance training for all.”
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