The Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Adutwum, has noticed that Ghana's education system lacks fairness but pledged to help reverse it with new plans being implemented.
He said although schools in rural communities mostly lack the essential resources to train their students, graduates of such schools end up competing with those from much more resourced schools.
Speaking at the Stanbic Bank Breakfast Meeting on financing free quality education, he said this creates an imbalance that affects the quality of education."When you talk about quality and access, you cannot forget about equity," he said.
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To help bridge that gap, Dr Adutwum, who is responsible of basic and secondary education, said the ministry made it compulsory for all first class schools to reserve 30 percent of their quotas for students from poor communities.
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