The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes




I am proud to say that I am apart of the Ashaiman Sr. High School (ASHS) group!! (so excited about this) With that being said I decided do some research and find articles that highlighted education in Ghana. I found two articles that interest me that touched on problems with text books and the gender gap in education.

The article that dealt with text books spoke of how English proficiency is important for a student to be successful  yet text books are being printed using a poor standard of English. Text books are suppose to aid a student in their educational development. By reading one can learn new words and better understand how a particular language works or flows in written form. Having a text book exhibit a bad example of how you are to communicate can be detrimental. The author suggest that books should be screened thoroughly to make sure that the books being printed comply with the National Book and Text Book policy to fix the problem.

The article that highlighted the gender gap in education (particularly primary school)  praised Ghana for its successful efforts to close it!! Unfortunately, according to the article Ghana still needs to work on other areas that still contain gender  gaps. The four priority areas for policy recommendation are:

1. human capital (female mortality and education) 

2. access to economic opportunities

3. voice and agency withing society 

4.  limiting reproduction of gender inequality across generations