Joseph Kwame Kumah, Member of Parliament for Kintampo North and Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education, has called for a long-term national plan for education.
He stated that such a plan should span at least 75 years to ensure sustainable development and adequate infrastructure for future generations.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency during the committee's visit to Mawuli School and OLA Senior High School in Ho, Kumah emphasized that Ghana must begin planning beyond short-term political cycles if it hopes to sustain its free education policy. "With population growth increasing at a geometric rate and infrastructure struggling to keep pace, no government, whether in the next five or ten years-can deliver free education effectively without long-term planning," he stressed.
He explained that the committee's tour, which began at Kimbu Senior High School in Accra and extended through parts of the Greater Accra, Volta, and Eastern Regions, has revealed a consistent pattern of challenges: insufficient furniture, overcrowded dormitories, inadequate classrooms, and limited teaching and learning resources. "Even the tablets provided by the government lack the updated materials they were supposed to come with.
