The Ghana Education Service (GES) is holding a three-day annual review meeting in the Upper East Region to assess the situation of education there and draw plans for the next academic year.
The meeting would also consolidate the achievements of the GES in the region, identify the challenges it faced last year and recommend effective and appropriate remedies to the problems.
The meeting involved senior staff of GES, representatives from District Assemblies and Non Governmental Organisations working in the field of education.
The participants would be discussing education, planning and management, partnership programmes, financial performance, science and technical education and enrolment.
Other areas would cover health, agriculture and environment.
Mrs Agnes Chigabatia, Upper East Deputy Regional Minister who opened the meeting noted that the new education reform and other progressive programmes introduced by the government to improve education, sought to align it to national aspirations.
She said it was to develop a disciplined socially conscious and a well-rounded Ghanaian who would be able to fit into any society in the global world.
Mrs Chigabatia said the government had initiated a project, the Northern Flood Schools Project, under which schools destroyed by floods last year will be rehabilitated.
Mr Anthony Aziabah, Acting Regional Director of Education, urged participants to take the meeting seriously and make good plans for the future.