Africa Education Watch (EduWatch) says that by the end of the 2022/2023 academic year, only 15 percent of the 15,368 primary schools in the public sector had functional ICT facilities.

In EduWatch’s Volume 30, focusing on bridging the ICT facilities gap in Ghana’s public basic education system, it further disclosed that 13 percent of the 11,735 public JHS had functioning ICT facilities.

“By the end of the 2022/2023 academic year, only 15 percent of the 15,368 primary schools in the public sector, and 13 percent of the 11,735 public JHS had functioning ICT facilities.

“Positioning Ghana’s basic education system to deliver Digital Literacy to all, regardless of geographical location, requires providing direct access to ICT facilities for about 13,000 primary schools and 10,000 more JHS.

“Digital Literacy at the basic education level was one of the challenging education indicators for Ghana in the recently published Global Youth Development Index, in which Ghana reportedly ranked 125 out of 183 countries, with the lack of functioning ICT facilities in most of its public basic schools being a causative factor,” it stated.

Attached below is the full statement.