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Complementary Education Agency Bill 2019 passed

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Parliament has passed the Complementary Education Agency Bill, 2019 on Friday 16th October, 2020.

Objective of the Bill is to establish the Complementary Education Agency to provide for educational programmes outside the formal education system in Ghana.

The Non-Formal Education Division, now changing to Complementary Education Agency, of the Ministry has been in existence since the first Republic.

The Division has been providing a range of programmes relative to adult and lifelong education.

However, the Government wants to ensure access to education in all forms hence, the need to enact legislation to establish an Agency responsible for Complementary Education to ensure the carrying out of the myriad of changes and innovations taking place in the field of complementary education.

The memorandum accompanying the bill, signed by Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh said, The Agency aimed to provide learning opportunities and complementary education for those who are outside the mainstream Ghanaian education system to equip them with requisite knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for their personal, community and national development.

According to him, “the name is changing from Non-Formal Education to Complementary Education to reflect the countless changes that have taken place in the area of non-formal education and to acknowledge that complementary education can be formal and recognized within a quality Education framework”.

The Bill in clauses 1 to 3 deals with the establishment of the Complementary Education Agency. Clause 1 establishes the Agency as a body corporate with perpetual succession.

The object of the Agency as set out under clause 2 of the Bill is to provide complementary education and promote quality complementary education.

Clause 3 provides for the functions of the Agency and these include the formulation of policies and guidelines to advance complementary education; the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of approved learning activities in the complementary education sector and the development of partnerships to enhance Complementary education and occupational skills development.

The Agency is also responsible for equipping learners with the knowledge, attitudes and skills to enable them to improve the quality of life in their communities in a life-long learning framework.

Story filed by Edzorna Francis Mensah

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