The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has requested that the Ministry of Education enact its textbook publishing and marketing regulations and penalize anyone who break them.
It was also recommended that the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) be granted the authority to exclude and kill unapproved textbooks and materials that do not meet its requirements from the market as a barrier to any unfavorable changes in Ghana’s educational system.
Following the discovery of certain narratives in a text book that are said to be biased towards an ethnic community, it issued a statement signed by its Executive Council Chairman, Mr Joseph Atsu Homadzi.
The GNECC applauded the NaCCA for requesting that the publisher of the unapproved text books, “Fresh Golden Publications,” remove them from the market immediately.
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“Such books clearly do not adhere to the criteria of the Standards Based Curriculum, and therefore have the ability to subject the future leaders of this great country to education of substandard quality,” it said.
The statement also urged parents and schools (both private and public) to perform thorough checks by accessing the NaCCA website for a list of certified books to ensure standards compliance.
