{"id":106006,"date":"2025-12-09T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=106006"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:05:00","slug":"underfunding-and-gh%c2%a212bn-arrears-crippling-education-delivery-ntim-fordjour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=106006","title":{"rendered":"Underfunding and GH\u00a212bn arrears crippling education delivery \u2013 Ntim Fordjour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, says persistent underfunding of the education sector and a backlog of more than GH\u00a212 billion owed to the Ministry of Education are eroding the country\u2019s learning outcomes.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Asempa FM\u2019s Ekosii Sen, Rev. Fordjour argued that the sector cannot deliver strong results when basic financial commitments, such as teacher allowances, remain outstanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best course of action is that funding must be released to the Ministry of Education to drive outcomes in our education system. Teachers should also be paid their allowances,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

He insisted that the government must collaborate with teachers rather than blame them for declining academic performance, noting that they remain the backbone of quality education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government should work with teachers instead of blaming them for students\u2019 poor performance. Rather than assigning blame, the focus should be on motivating teachers to help students succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rev. Fordjour also called for stronger partnerships with mission schools, which he said consistently produce some of the nation\u2019s top-performing students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government should also build positive partnerships with mission schools because they often have the highest-performing students,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"RankingFormer Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has warned that persistent underfunding and a backlog of over GH\u00a212 billion in budgetary arrears to the Ministry of Education are undermining the country\u2019s learning outcomes.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3240,1926,1883,2524,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-ministry","category-government","category-national","category-ntim-fordjour","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}