The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), the Administrator, Mr. Paul Adjei, has highlighted the growing cost of completing stalled education projects.

He explained that many projects awarded years ago can no longer be completed with their original contract sums due to rising material and construction costs.

He appealed for a dedicated fund to complete abandoned projects and stressed the need “for sustained investment in classrooms, schools and other education infrastructure to improve learning outcomes and support national development.”

He said this when the Select Committee on Education visited the GETFund as part of its monitoring visit on the second day by engaging officials of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), and the National Schools Inspectorate Authority.

The Chairman, Nortsu-Kotoe Kwasi Peter, said the exercise was intended to go beyond formal presentations by allowing members to interact directly with agency officials and better understand challenges that may not be fully captured in written reports. The Committee discussed standards, accountability and the credibility of tertiary education.

Kingsley Nyarko raised concerns about academic dishonesty, including reports of students paying others to complete assignments, and called for stronger measures to safeguard the integrity of academic qualifications.

He also urged GTEC to collaborate with other relevant institutions to ensure satellite campuses run by public universities meet required standards.

Ranking Member, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, called for a dependable system to rank university programmes according to the employment outcomes of graduates, so that students and parents can assess whether graduates from particular programmes are securing jobs.

Source: 3news