We are owing everywhere – Ama Pratt on Ghana’s education crisis

Maame Ama Pratt has drawn attention to Ghana’s deepening education funding crisis, stressing the need for immediate government action.

Speaking on GBC’s Breakfast Show, she outlined key financial challenges affecting the sector, including delays in capitation grants, debts owed to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), and the struggles of the School Feeding Program.

“The major problem facing us is funding. All the problems we are going to discuss, it is about where to get money, pay for them,” she said.

She was particularly concerned about the impact of delayed funds on schools and students, questioning how quality education could be sustained under such financial constraints. “Capitation grant is in arrears. We are owing WAEC. The school feeding, we are owing. How can we feed students with such a low amount a day?”

Beyond funding, she also addressed the weakening role of school heads in shaping students beyond academics. “We have lost the effective aspect of training our children, which has to do with character and conscience. We will run into danger when we train children with knowledge and they don’t have character,” she warned.

Pratt called for the empowerment of school authorities to ensure discipline and values remain integral to education. “We must revisit the issue where we have disabled the headmasters and everything, otherwise we will be in trouble in the coming years,” she cautioned.

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