Vice Presidential Candidate for the National Democratic Congress, Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang has touted her achievements as former education minister under former president John Mahama as one of the best in the history of the country.
Speaking on Live FM in Cape Coast, Naana Agyemang explained that her intervention as education minister helped increase the number of trained teachers in the country.
“When I was made the minister of education, we realized that the number of trained teachers were fewer in the system as compared to the basic school pupils. This was due to the quota system which wasn’t allowing the colleges of education to admit up to full capacity,” she noted.
She added, “So after the colleges gained tertiary status we spoke with GETFUND to provide the students with loans just as being done in the universities and increase the intake in order for us to have more trained teachers to teach in the basic schools. We allowed those already on the allowance to enjoy it till they completed so it’s not true we took it from the beneficiaries.”
“In fact, it was my intervention that increased the number of trained teachers annually from 9,000 to 15,400. So the sin I committed was to allow more teachers to be trained so we don’t have shortages going forward?” she quizzed.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
