British Council, Ministry to collaborate towards education development in Ghana

The Country Director of the British Council in Ghana, Nii Doodo Dodoo, has affirmed the British Council’s desire to renew an existing relation­ship with the Education Ministry to improve education development in the country.

He explained that the relationship between the two institutions which dates back several years was being renewed to promote the develop­ment of education in the country and the rest of the world.

“The leadership of the two in­stitutions would soon meet to have a thorough discussion on possible areas they could collaborate”.

Nii Dodoo, announced this when he paid a courtesy call to the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, in Accra on Monday.

The visit was aimed at introduc­ing himself to the Education Minis­ter and also to find areas of possible collaboration in education and other facets of the nation’s economy.

The Country Director com­mended Dr Adutwum for his role in the ongoing education reforms in the country which stood the chance of transforming the na­tion’s economy.

Nii Dodoo said his outfit would have a critical look at areas to support, so they could put in place the right and best ways of partner­ing with the Education Ministry to come out with the appropriate ways of getting things done for the country.

The Minister for Education, Dr Adutwum, described the role played by the British Council as very critical towards national devel­opment since it created opportuni­ties for the empowerment of the people, especially human resources development.

He enumerated the various reforms and initiatives being intro­duced into the nation’s education space to support the national transformation agenda, adding that, no new education policy was being introduced but looking at the loopholes in the various policies and finding solutions to them.

Dr Adutwum stated that one of the areas he wanted the British Council to support was the training of English teachers in the coun­try on how to teach the language as a foreign language and not to English-speaking countries.

This, to him, would help sharpen the skills of the English teachers so they would be able to get the best so that the teaching of the language would improve drastically since it was critical in teaching in all schools in the country.

The Education Minister also wanted a partner with the British Council to ensure that all schools in the country pursuing interna­tional curricula added some local content into their curriculum so that their students would know and understand their host countries.

He mentioned for instance, that the British Council could bring its experiences to bear when it comes to the establishment of the National Education Leadership Institute (NELI) and called on the institution to come on board towards the training of the leaders in the education sector.