Ghana’s Education System needs a devolution:
The state of Ghana’s Educational Decentralisation Policy International experience with decentralisation has motivated a well-known typology. This and other typologies for Ghana have the limitation that decentralisation experience in the region is still at an incipient stage. In most decentralized countries typologies begin with the necessary orientation to deconcentration, devolution and delegation. Recently, attention has been focused equally if not more on devolution to schools and school management committees (commonly called school autonomy and school-based management) at the grassroots level. As part of the ongoing Education Decentralization Roadmap Campaign Project, Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) in collaboration with STAR-GHANA advocates for a more effective management system for public basic education in Ghana. People have argued that given the structures and functions of education system in Ghana, the system is already decentralised an...