The Select Committee on Education of Parliament has concluded a four-day oversight visit to the Ghana Education Service (GES), Ghana National Research Fund (GNRF) and the Encyclopedia Africana to engage management and staff on operational challenges affecting their work.
The visit formed part of the Committee’s mandate to assess the performance of institutions under the education sector and identify areas requiring policy support and intervention.
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At the Ghana Education Service, the Director-General, Professor Ernest Kofi Davis, highlighted several challenges confronting the Service, including shortages of non-teaching staff, particularly drivers and kitchen personnel, inadequate vehicles for administrative duties, insufficient funding and delays in the release of budgetary allocations.
Professor Davis also expressed concern about rising indiscipline in schools, attributing the situation partly to limited support from parents and communities in enforcing discipline. He said addressing these challenges would help improve school administration and enhance education delivery nationwide.
Meanwhile, the Acting Administrator of the Ghana National Research Fund, Professor Abigail Opoku-Mensah, appealed to the Committee to support the agency in addressing staffing gaps and securing approval for its conditions of service.
She explained that improved staffing and better conditions would enable the Fund to attract and retain the skilled personnel needed to effectively carry out its mandate.
The Chairman of the Select Committee on Education, Hon. Peter Nortsu-Kotoe, assured management of the institutions that the concerns raised during the engagements would be presented to the Minister for Education for consideration and possible support.
He reiterated the Committee’s commitment to working with education sector agencies to address challenges and improve service delivery.
