Head of Community Outreach Unit of the Complementary Education Agency at the Ministry of Education, Eric Amanor says the agency through its policies and programmes is making progress in providing literacy outside Ghana’s formal education system.
According to him, the enactment of the complementary Education agency act in 2020 came in timely to open their horizon regarding the pathway to delivering an effective literacy program in the covid 19 era.
Already, the ministry has introduced a National traditional literacy program currently being run in 15 Ghanaian languages. There is also a radio literacy program which is a kind of remote learning system used to educate the learners without the one on one delivery approach of learning.
However Mr. Amanor says in addition to these, the agency will also run remedial classes for JHS and SHS dropouts and also organize vocational skill training for people within the informal sector.
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He added that “the complementary education agency will also roll out a digital literacy program and these learning centers are like educational complex going to be adult education, vocational education, and occupational literacy and in addition also provide digital literacy”
Speaking on this year’s International Literacy Day which was marked on Tuesday, Mr. Amanor said the introduction of Ghana’s Complimentary Education Agency is a very good initiative which is helping to address literacy challenges in the country.
The International Literacy Day is celebrated annually on September 8 to explore how literacy can contribute to building solid human foundations. This year’s celebration under the theme “Literacy for a human centered recovery: narrowing the digital divide”, focuses on the interplay of literacy and digital skills required by non-literate youth and adults.
Source: Lydia Sekyi Acquah/ATLFMNEWS
