Govt receives $ 40 million to improve secondary education | Education

The Facility Expansion Project, part of the additional $ 40 million provided by the World Bank under the Secondary Education Improvement Program (SEIP), has started.

The project will impact 75 schools through improved facilities and learning outcomes, Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister of General Education, announced yesterday in Accra.

Dr. Adutwum was speaking at an interview when he visited the Daily Graphic press room, where he had an exchange of views with the members of the conference. writing in Accra yesterday.

Last year, the government received an additional $ 40 million from the World Bank for the improvement of high schools under the SEIP.

Known as SEIP Supplementary Financing (AF), this money is meant to improve the facilities of 75 schools.

SEIP Schools

SEIP schools are the 23 school blocks sponsored by the World Bank, known as E-Blocks, initiated by the Mahama administration to improve access to education.

The SEIP project aims to increase access to SHS education in underserved districts and improve the quality of low-performing SHS in Ghana.

Visit

Adutwum said the government had completed nine of the remaining 15 SEIP schools, which had been set up by the previous administration under the patronage of the World Bank.

He said that five of the remaining SEIP schools would be finished by the end of the month, adding that the funds used to build the school blocks were public funds and that it was therefore impossible for the current government to build them. abandoned.

Additional financing

Mr. Adutwum explained that SEIP AF, which would involve the modernization of facilities, would cover both single-track and dual-track schools.

He said the government is tackling the SHS infrastructure problem on three fronts: the $ 500 million securitization, the GETFund normal projects and the $ 40 million SEIP AF projects.

securitization

The government got this year the approval of the Parliament for the securitization of 40% of the GETFund fund.

Of the securitization proceeds, $ 500 million (approximately ¢ 2.45 billion) will be used to upgrade the SHS infrastructure to eliminate the dual-track system in the second year of first years in progress. track system.

About 766 abandoned and new structures will be completed across the country, particularly in dual-track schools, to provide enough clbadrooms to phase out the system for second year students starting in September of this year. year.