The Ministry of Education (MoE) plans to revive and strengthen Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) and student councils across the country in order to foster a community alliance that it hopes will help to improve the quality of education offered, especially in the hinterland.
This is according to the ministry’s Chief Planning Officer Evelyn Hamilton, who made the disclosure during an interactive session with Indigenous leaders and other participants at the recently-concluded National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference.
“What the ministry wants to do in a sense is to have our stakeholders, parents, Toshaos and other community leaders being able to look at the school and to be able to say to the ministry what might be going wrong with the physical facilities, what might be going wrong with teachers’ attendance, with children’s attendance…and to suggest ways in which for each individual school there could be an improvement in performance,” Hamilton said.
