Accra, 23 October, 2019 / 11:08 pm (ACI Africa).
Despite significant strides by the West African nation of Ghana in realizing Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that governs the right to education for everyone, the universal education of girls remains a challenge, a Catholic educationist has said and encouraged literacy for the girl child as a way of guaranteeing national development.
“The development of this country is inextricably tied to the education of the girl child,” the National Director of Girls’ Education Unit in the Ghana Education Service (GES), Benediicta Tenni Seidu said during the 10th Anniversary of St. Catherine Girls’ Senior High School in the Volta Region of Ghana.
“Though the situation has improved today than years ago and more parents are now educating their girls, there still exist some levels of prejudice against the education of girls,” the GES official said.
Speaking to ACI Africa correspondent in Ghana, the Catholic educationist said that “the best form of economic independence and empowerment” can only be achieved in the former British colony through educating the girl child as there is a “correlation between education and productivity.”
According to a 2017 UNESCO report on Ghana, female enrollment in tertiary education stands at 13.53% while that of their male counterparts is at 18.68%.
