Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has launched the National Educational Leadership Institute, NELI, to create a permanent independent institution to offer tailor-made leadership programmes with certification for current and aspiring heads of schools and educational managers.
The NELI, which is an initiative of the Ministry of Education through its Reform Delivery Unit and other partners, seeks to equip educational leaders with the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed for high-performing stewardship of learning experiences in all educational institutions across the country.
It would also serve as an approach to improve their leadership capacities to promote collaborative teaching and learning geared towards improving students’ performances.
Dr Adutwum, at the launch in Takoradi, said the country’s educational system faces structural challenges like leadership issues that pose risk to the learning outcomes of students.
Such challenges, he noted, have resulted in many young people lacking the required skills to thrive academically and shape them to become successful people to help transform the country.
He said it is imperative to begin raising a new generation of educational leaders who would be interested in the
learning outcomes of students and lead the charge to turn Ghana’s socio-economic fortunes around.
The Executive Director of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Ghana, Dr Charles Yeboah, a NELI implementing partner, said the Institute would roll out a five-month course for 400 heads of educational institutions who would form the first cohorts of the initiative.
The Director-General of Institute of Educational Planning and Administration at the University of Cape Coast, Dr Michael Boakye-Yiadom, the lead implementing partner of NELI, speaking on the future and sustainability of the Institute, said there is the need for Parliament to pass a legislative instrument that would mandate successive governments to continue to implement the programme for the collective benefit of everyone.
SOURCE: GNA