MoE to create a TVET Trust Fund to be financed by 1% oil revenues
The Minister in Charge of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, amid Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), says he will propose to the Cabinet the creation of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Trust Fund.
The Education Minister, who disclosed this at the launch of the Free Sanitary Pad for Junior and Senior High School Girls programme in Accra, said the TVET Fund will be financed by 1% of the country’s Oil revenues.
“I will propose to the Cabinet the creation of the TVET Trust Fund, financed by 1% of Ghana’s Oil revenues, and I seek the President’s support,” the Minister of Education and Tamale South Member of Parliament said at the event.
Commenting on STEM and Language education, Mr Haruna announced the introduction of STEM kits and dedicated learning cells from Primary Four to Primary Six, an initiative already being supported by the Ghana Education Trust Fund.
“From the end of this year, STEM education will be expanded with practical kits for learners at the basic level. We want to embed science and engineering at the earliest stages,” the Tamale South lawmaker stated.
He also revealed that form two Senior High School students would soon be required to study one foreign language alongside their field of study, offering options such as “French, Spanish, German, and Chinese,” in line with Mahama’s curriculum review plans.
The Education Minister, Honourable Haruna Iddrisu, framed the launch as both a public health response and an enduring social justice milestone that directly confronts the structural barriers limiting girls’ participation in school.
“Today’s milestone, in my words, is to say a terminal end to the unbearable emotional trauma and indignity that young girls go through responding to their natural call. No girl child in Ghana will have her dignity compromised or absent herself from school again,” he stated.
The Minister for Education emphasised that the Free Sanitary Pad programme introduced by the central government is to permanently “restore dignity and classroom continuity” for the Ghanaian girl child.
Mr. Iddrisu, who described the challenge of lacking sanitary pads as an “ordeal”, was confident that the President John Dramani Mahama government initiative would immensely benefit female students across the country.
“Today’s milestone in my words is to say a terminal end to the unbearable emotional trauma and indignity that young girls go through responding to nature.
His Excellency John Dramani Mahama says from today, you will give a terminal end to that strife and to that struggle so that no girl child in Ghana will abstain from school and have her dignity compromised as we watched in the drama because of undergoing this natural biological process,” the Education Minister stressed.
The Free Sanitary Pad programme launch, held on the theme: “Improving Menstrual Health and Hygiene for Girls for Quality Education”, brought together the Ga Mantse, Nii Tackie Teiko Tsuru II; the Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Clement Abas Apaak;
Others are the Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Rita Naa Odoley Sowah; the Deputy Minority Leader, Patricia Appiagyei; the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuye, and other ministers, directors and staff of the various ministries.
