Education policy research and advocacy organization, Africa Education Watch is asking government to re-commit to making basic education free, universally accessible and compulsory for all Ghanaian children.
It is therefore advocating for increase in capital investments and financing of public basic education in line with Article 38 (2) of the 1992 constitution.
Article 38(2) which provides for free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (fCUBE) for all Ghanaian children is in fulfilment of United Nations Declaration on the rights of the child, which includes the right to education.
According to the UN declaration, children cannot realize their full human potentials without access to quality basic education.
In a statement marking World Children’s Day today, November 20, 2022, Africa Education Watch made reference to the Ghana Statistical Service report which states that about 1.2 million children are still not in school after seventeen (17) years of the implementation of fCUBE.
The education thinktank adds that “public basic education is still neither truly free, compulsory nor universally accessible to all Ghanaian children”.
“Hidden fees, low government investment in building new schools and maintaining and operating existing ones, and poverty continue to hamper universal access”.
