Promotions Questions and Answers Part 3 ~ Owafk-Africa

11. What are the designations of the 4 front line Assistant Directors of Education?

The 4- line ADEs/DDs have been established to head the main Units of the District Directorates to assist the District Directors to ensure close and effective implementation of the educational reforms. These units are:
 Human Resource Management and Development
 Supervision (Inspection)
 Administration and Finance
 Planning, Data Collection, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation.

12. What is the composition of the School Management Committee?

Every school in Ghana is supposed to have a school management committee to serve as body to oversee the effective and smooth running of the school at the local level. All SMCs are composed of the following:
 Representative of the MMDE. In most cases it is the circuit supervisor.
 A representative of the PTA
 A representative of the MMD Assembly
 Two representative of teacher in the school.
 A representative of the unit committee
 The Headmaster of the school
 A representative of the chief
 A female representative from the locality
 A representative of the past students of the school
 A representative from the office of the local manager if the school is a unit school.
13. What are development partners in education?
 They are primarily foreign agencies that offer a wide range of assistance to government in the area of educational development.

13. There are a large number of NGOs in Ghana (foreign and local) some of them are engaged in educational development/activities in Ghana. Some of these NGOs include the following:

FOREIGN NGOs
 UNESCO- United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.
 UNICEF- United Nations International Children’s Educational Fund.
 WFP- World Food Program.
 GTZ&KFW- German Technical Organization
 US Peace Corps- United States Peace Corps.
 JICA- Japan International Cooperation Agency.
 VSO- Volunteer Service Overseas (British org.)
 CUSO- Canadian University Service Overseas.
 DFID- Department for International Development (UK)
 DANIDA- Danish International Development Agency.
 USAID- United States Agency for International Development
 World Bank
 UNDP- United Nations Development program
 CIDA- Canadian International Development Agency
 ADRA- Adventist Development Relief Agency
 ADB- African Development Bank
LOCAL NGOs
 Action Aid Ghana
 World Vision
 Project Ghana
 Catholic Relief Services
 Plan Ghana
 Sight Savers etc.

14. How do NGOs partner the Government of Ghana in Education?

NGOs offer varying forms of assistance to the Government of Ghana in the promotion and development of education. Basically they offer;
 Technical assistance in the form of personnel and exchange programs.
 Funding for the organization of workshops, symposia, conferences, in-service training etc.
 Logistics in the form of machines, equipments, text books, etc.
 Support in infrastructure development.eg. Building of schools, etc.
 Scholarship to needy but brilliant students
 Health needs of school children. Eg. Immunization and vaccination, screening of children’s eyes.

15. Mention the types of visits to school in Ghana.
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