News:
March 11, 2026
The Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee, Tweneboah Kodua Fokuo, has expressed strong satisfaction with the performance of the education sector following the committee’s review of the 2024 Annual Progress Report.
The committee recently engaged with officials from the Ministry of Education and its key agencies, including the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), to assess the sector’s advancements over the past year.
Speaking after the session, Mr. Fokuo noted that the review successfully covered all intended objectives, highlighting significant progress in critical areas such as student enrollment, transition rates, and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
“I think that we’ve covered everything that we set out to do,” the MP stated. “I am happy to note that most of the key metrics that we looked at today—in enrollment, transition rates, and TVET—we’ve seen real policy trends in all these areas. I believe these are on the back of deliberate policy measures that we’re looking at, and we’ve seen the results coming up.”
Mr. Fokuo underscored the fundamental role of education in national development, framing it as the bedrock of human capital.
“I said in the beginning that human capital is important. You cannot develop a nation without developing your human capital. And human capital development starts with education,” he explained. “We need to have the right education to be able to innovate, to be able to develop skills to transform the nation.”
While lauding the overall progress, the lawmaker offered a suggestion to enhance the effectiveness of future review meetings. He proposed that the committee supplement the annual data with more recent statistics to gain a more current understanding of the sector’s trajectory.
“What I wish is that next time when we are meeting… if we could look at probably just one year to the current, it will help a bit more,” Mr. Fokuo said. “At least tell us what has happened in the past four months, at least, so that we can trail these numbers to see that we are moving in the direction that we all want. I believe this will give us a better, up-to-date picture, so it helps us in our engagement and decisions.”
Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.com