GES and MPA sign an agreement protocol to fight teacher absenteeism with ICT tools

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One of the daunting challenges for Ghana, especially for those in charge of its education system, is the lack of adequate clbadrooms for all children to sit and learn.

This challenge, which is widespread at the basic school level, has led many schools without infrastructure to set up clbades under trees to provide education and learning for children.

To address this problem, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has partnered with the Millennium Promise Alliance (MPA), a non-governmental organization with presence in more than 20 countries, to identify these schools and enable them to know the type of school. to give support to each of these schools.

A memorandum of understanding was signed on Monday, April 8, between the two parties to this effect.

In accordance with the MoU, the MPA will help the GES map all Ghana's basic schools, so that schools under trees as well as those with poor infrastructure are identified and prioritized. .

This will allow the GES to know in one click the location of all these schools and to establish a strategy to help each of them put in place a modernized school infrastructure.

MPA will partner more with the GES to develop its Mobile School Report (mSRC), having piloted it successfully in 20 districts.

The two institutions should also collaborate to develop a Pocket PC and ICT policy framework for the mSRC, introduced by the GES with support from UNICEF in 2016, to monitor teacher absenteeism at school. base level.

In addition, the duo will support the capabilities of GHG staff, particularly the local, regional and national IT team, at the back of the mSRC system.

The MPA country chief, Chief Nat Ebo Nsarko, commented on the initiative before signing the memorandum of understanding on behalf of his team. He is confident that mapping all grbadroots schools under trees will help resolve the controversies surrounding these schools and further help the government plan and mobilize enough resources to build school infrastructure in areas where they are lacking.

"… you know we've heard a lot of schools under the trees. Sometimes you will travel and you would like to see these schools under the trees and you may not see them. So we want to do what we call school mapping so that in one click you know where all these elementary schools are – if they are actually under trees, the GPS location will only reveal them.

He continued, "I am sure you will be interested to know how many schools are under the trees to be able to remedy this situation. The archives and data will be there to help you identify these schools under trees so we can help, "he noted.

The Director General of the GES, Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, who initialed, for his part, expressed the belief that this collaboration will further push the GES to reach new heights in its fight against teacher absenteeism, while improving the teaching and learning at school. Basic school level.

About mSRC

The mSRC was developed in 2016 by the GES in collaboration with UNICEF and other key partners to collect critical data on school attendance of teachers and students and visualize the badyzed data at the school. help from dashboards.

The system allows the GES to follow the teaching and learning at the basic school level.

For example, the system checks whether teachers and students attend school and what activities they were engaged in during clbad hours.

The system has been tested in 20 districts where tablets with integrated applications have been provided to circuit supervisors for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

The system is networked so that from the district to the region through the national, the data of a given school is accessible.