Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that his administration aims at moving the local economy from raw material production to a value added one.
According to the President this aim can only be achieved through education and this is why his administration is working tirelessly to make sure that not many people can access education but all Ghanaian children.
“That is not going to be possible if we don’t have educated workforce so it is linked. It therefore requires that the investments that we have to make for ensuring that not just as many, but all our children have the opportunity to go to school right from Kindergarten through primary to secondary through tertiary education is guaranteed”, he stated.
”We are spending, as we speak 23 per cent of our budget on education, It is one of the highest on the continent”, he stressed.
“ We intend to ramp it up even more because as you widen access which we have done through primary through secondary with the free senior high school project, which has brought nearly half a million students to secondary system, clearly also you have problems of infrastructure , challenges of classrooms and numbers”, the President added.