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It was established in Ghana by Ghana Education Trust Fund Act, 2000, Act 581. The GETFund is financed with 2.5% of the value-added tax or VAT and has to provide special financial support to public educational institutions under the Ministry of Education for development and maintenance of academic facilities.
While Education Minister from 1998 to 2001, Spio-Garbrah was credited with the creation of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), [10] [11] which has since mobilized over USD Billions for educational sector infrastructure, transportation, equipment and scholarships. The GETFund law has been widely praised as one of the most transformative ...
The Ministry of Education's main goal is to ensure accessible and high-quality education for all in Ghana. [8] This is achieved through policy formulation, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation, with a focus on meeting labor market demands, enhancing human development, and promoting national integration.
The state of vocational education in Ghana remains obscure: 90% of vocational education is still informal, taking the form of apprenticeship. [79] The offer of formal vocational programmes within the private sector is also hard to define [60] and the Ministry of Education recognizes its incapacity to provide public vocational programmes. Many ...
The Higherlife Foundation Basic Education programme is delivered through the Capernaum Scholarship, [21] a scholarship targeted at orphaned and vulnerable children between the ages of 5 and 18 years. The scholarship includes fees and tuition from early childhood to high school and has been running for the past 19 years.
The Nizam’s Charitable Trust is a non-profit organization. It is currently headed by Prince Muffakham Jah - the grandson of 7th Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The trust grants scholarships to around 2,000 students every year.
John Kolorah Blay was born into a humble Nzema family in Ghana's Western Region in 1941. [6] In 1959 he migrated to the United States, settling in Philadelphia, claiming he was following in the footsteps of Kwame Nkrumah in studying at the University of Pennsylvania, while in actuality working as a waiter at the Union League Club. [7]
High School Students in Rural Ghana. A review of Ghana's former high school policies and operations led to the essential creation of Free SHS. Ghana's Ministry of Education, observed the lack of efficiency in key areas; access to education, quality of education, and education management. [4]