President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said Ghana will not realise the desired results unless the total education of the people become the central concern for all in the society.
Societies like the United States of America (USA), Japan, South Korea, India Canada and China among others have prospered and continue to prosper, he said, because they saw education as their main concern to empower the populace.
President Akufo-Addo, in a meeting with Upper West Regional House of Chiefs, said without an empowered society, the process of national development would be seriously challenged.
The government introduced Free Senior High School education policy in 2017 with the intention to ensure that every young Ghanaian regardless of his or her social and economic standing receives a minimum of senior high school education.
The programme attracted 90,000 more students last year and the figure could climb to 180,000 this year to give a further boost to Ghana’s education access, he said.
President Akufo-Addo said government would recruit 8,000 more teachers to match the projected increase adding that about 43,000 applicants of the Nation Builders Core (NABCO) were teachers.
He said Government is determined to employ the teachers to fill in the teaching gap in the country’s education sector.
President Akufo-Addo expressed appreciation to the chiefs for lauding the various policy and programme interventions introduced by government in the effort to transform the economy.
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