Key stakeholders in education in the Tolon and Nanton Districts have attended an orientation workshop to improve their knowledge and understanding of the requirements of the Complementary Basic Education (CBE) Policy and its implementation. They included directors of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Complementary Education Agency (CEA) as…
Mr. Zac Abrahams, Kpone-Katamanso District Director of the Complementary Education Agency (CEA) has called on residents to take advantage of many programmes the Agency runs to acquire literacy and skills. Speaking an interview with the Ghana News Agency, he said the Agency which was formerly known as the Non-Formal Education…
The visit comes ahead of the UK and Kenya’s co-hosting the Global Education Summit with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) taking place in London in July 2021.
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As much as a year s worth of past academic progress made by disadvantaged children in the Global South may have been wiped out by school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have calculated.
The research, by academics from the University of Cambridge and RTI International, attempts to quantify the scale of learning loss that children from poor and marginalised communities in the Global South may have experienced, and the extent to which home support and access to learning resources could ameliorate it. While it is known that the education of these children has suffered disproportionately during the pandemic, it is much harder to measure exactly how much their academic progress has been impeded while schools have been closed.