DIVISIONS AND UNIT AT GES HEADQUARTERS

The GES Headquarters has the following divisions:

Divisions:

Administration
Finance
Human Resource Management
Technical Vocational Education
Schools and Instructions
Special Education

These Divisions have Units that plays specific roles to help their respective divisions function properly.

Units at the GES Headquarters:

Science Education Unit
Guidance and Counselling Unit
Culture Unit
School Health Education Program (SHEP) Unit
Girls Education Unit
Early Childhood Unit
Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS)
Partnership and Affiliations Unit
School Health Education
Physical Education
Inclusive Education Unit
Education for the Visually impaired Unit
Braille Press Unit
National assessment and resource centre
Education for learning disability (eld) unit
Education for the intellectual and developmental disability (eidd) unit
Education for the hearing impaired (eHi)

Each of these Divisions and Units is headed by Directors to ensure the smooth attainment of the goals and objectives set.

What are some of the challenges faced by the Ghana Education Service? Lets take a walk into some of their problems.

Challenges:

About 82% of the total GES budget is allocated for the payment of salaries and this tends to “crowd out” other expenditures
Inadequate furniture, especially at the basic school level
Inadequate supply of sanitation facilities such as gender-friendly toilets/urinals, especially at the basic school level
Inadequate infrastructure in over-subscribed Senior High Schools
Inadequate logistics for effective monitoring and supervision
Inadequate TLMs and textbooks
Inadequate facilities/logistics for In-service Education and Training for staff
Lack of science equipment in basic schools
Lack of ICT labs in all basic schools to intensify tech education

Achievments:

Implementation of the Government’s Free SHS programme
There has been access to CBE classes for 182,652 out of school children over the last four-year period (2013/14-2016/17) with over 49.4% female participation
There has been significant success in the project targets of the SEIP programme
There has been increase in the Capitation grant for schools.

The GES must try to work on finding lasting solutions to the challenges mentioned.

The Service hopes to work towards achieving the following prospects:

PROSPECTS:

To reduce the attrition rate through teacher motivation and increase the number of trained teachers through on-going programmes, such as the UTDBE
To deploy more teachers to deprived areas, such as the three Northern regions of Ghana, to reduce the disparity in Pupil-Teacher Ratios (PTR)
To resource the newly created districts with office and residential accommodation facilities, including vehicles, for District Directors
To strengthen School Performance Appraisal Meetings in communities and to promote quality preparation of School Performance Improvement Plans (SPIPs)
To introduce measures to reduce cost of utilities for second-cycle institutions
To enforce the implementation of staff establishment norms so as to ensure that teachers in JHS/SHS cover a minimum of 24 periods a week

But would you like to know the body sits at the very top of all of the decision-makings and activities that the GES runs?

Read about the GES COUNCIL; the body that is set by law to rule every happenings at the Ghana Education Service.

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