The Ministry of Education was established under the Civil Service Law 327 and under the PNDC Law 1993 with the mandate to provide relevant education to all Ghanaians. The Ministry is committed to put in place an education system focused on promoting creativity and problem-solving through the development of academics, technical and vocational programmes that will improve the acquisition of skills and assure job-market readiness.

 

Mission: To formulate and implement policies that would ensure quality and accessible education to all Ghanaian with requisite skills to achieve human development, good health, poverty reduction, national integration and international recognition.

 

Functions

For the purpose of achieving its objective, the Ministry performs the following functions:

• Initiate and formulate policy options on Education for the consideration of government;
• Initiate and advise on government plans;
• Undertake such research as maybe necessary for the effective implementation of government policies;
• Review government policies and plans;
• Coordinate and monitor the implementation of sector policies and strategies

 

We are responsible for

Working towards achieving the overall goal of providing relevant and quality education for all Ghanaians including the disadvantaged, to enable them acquire skills, which will help make them functionally literate and productive to facilitate poverty alleviation and promote rapid socio-economic growth. This makes the Ministry responsible for:

• Expanding access to quality education at all levels of education.
• Providing and improving infrastructural facilities.
• Providing free education at the basic level.
• Making tertiary education more cost effective
• Raising the quality of teaching and learning for effective outcomes
• Making education more relevant to national goals and aspirations by focusing on technical and vocational education
• Establish a well co-ordinated and integrated system of scientific, technological and social innovation for public private sector partnership and development.

 

Service

• Process all incoming mails after they have been received
• Guarantee that all clients are attended to on arrival at the Ministry's Clients' office.
• Timely provision of information to Clients, Stakeholders and Partners on request
• Vet, process and effect payments of claims after all relevant documents have been received
• Preparation of sector reports