#NON FORMAL EDUCATION DIVISION OFFICES IN GHANA PROFESSIONAL#
Several ministries are involved in providing informal education through information dissemination, educational activities, or academic and professional programs for different target groups relating to the responsibilities of each organization. Lifelong learning sources such as community learning centers and village reading centers are promoted, in accordance with Section 25 of the National Education Act, so that they will be in sufficient number and with efficient functioning. In the academic year 2006, the enrolment number of all nonformal programs was 1 840 333 and the graduate number was 852 007. Target groups of the Office of the Non-formal Education Commission primarily are those outside the school system, that is, the early childhood population, school-age population who have missed formal schooling, and the over-school-age population however, services have now been expanded to include specific target groups such as the hill tribes, prison inmates, the disabled, the aged, farmers, local leaders, slum dwellers, and those having no opportunity to further their studies in formal schooling after compulsory education. Nonformal education services such as fundamental education for literacy, general education, technical and vocational education and training, family-based early childhood development programs, and activities for the improvement of quality of life are provided by both public and private bodies. Rukspollmuang, in International Encyclopedia of Education (Third Edition), 2010 Adult and Nonformal Education As of 2008, 492 NFE facilitators and teachers worked in 352 NFE learning centers across the country, at least one in each soum or district.Ĭ. The NFE learning centers – Enlightenment – play a crucial role in providing NFE service. The establishment of the National Non-formal and Distance Education Centre is a major milestone, a nationwide structure to deliver NFE with designated staff. The second target group is more broadly defined and includes literate adolescents and adults who take courses in life skills, (e.g., health, market economy, legal education, ecology, and small-business skills), vocational skills, creative skills, postliteracy programs for adults on life skills, income-generating activities, etc. The primary target group consists of those with no or limited formal schooling, that is, school-aged children and youth who are out of school, as well as adults who never enrolled in or dropped out of schools through the Literacy and Equivalency Programme. Yembuu, in International Encyclopedia of Education (Third Edition), 2010 Adult and Nonformal Education Community learning centers also conduct NFE programs, and the NIE has introduced an open school to provide opportunities for persons who obtain basic literacy and pre-vocational training to receive recognized certificates.ī.
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NFE programs include career guidance programs literacy classes income generating programs and programs for street children. Approximately 8500 school attendance committees were established for monitoring the attendance of children. The intention was to provide facilities for every child in the age group of 5–14 years to obtain education in schools or through suitable NFE programs.
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One of the main focuses of the 1997 reforms was to provide education for all children of the school-going age. However, the NFE program did not expand, given the relatively small number of school dropouts (lower than other countries in the region). Then, NFE offered vocational training courses in some schools after school hours, adult education programs, weekend English courses for adults, and literacy courses for children of school-going age who were out of schools. NFE initiatives of the government could be traced to the early 1970s. Wijeratne, in International Encyclopedia of Education (Third Edition), 2010 Nonformal Education