Kofi Ahovi

  The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has announced that the Bahamas will receive 300 Ghanaian teachers this year. The announcement follows bilateral negotiations between the minister and the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Philip Edward Davis. During the meeting, Ablakwa delivered a message of gratitude from President Mahama to the Bahamian Prime Minister for the invitation to engage. The deployment of the 300 teachers represents the first phase of a new cooperation in education between the two nations. According to the Foreign Minister, Bahamian authorities chose to expand the agreement to teachers due to the performance of Ghanaian nurses currently working in the country. It gives us much pride to highlight that Bahamian authorities are deeply impressed with the excellent work ethic of Ghanaian nurses serving under a similar agreement," Mr Ablakwa said in a post on Facebook on Saturday, July 11. The initiative is designed to establish a...

  Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has criticised the continued payment of teacher trainee allowances, describing the policy as wasteful and financially unsustainable. According to him, the resources being used to fund the allowances could be redirected into more productive areas within the education sector, particularly the recruitment and payment of additional teachers. Speaking in an interview with TV3 Ghana on Tuesday, May 12, Kofi Asare argued that Ghana must begin re-evaluating long-standing education policies that consume significant public funds without necessarily delivering the best outcomes for the country’s education system. He maintained that teacher trainee allowances no longer serve their original purpose and should be scrapped in favour of investments that directly strengthen teaching and learning in schools. The allowance is wasteful. We won’t discuss it again. It is wasteful. Everybody knows it is wasteful. That amount can hire about 400 t...