Cycle 9 of C.B.E. and R.E.P. launched

Ghana is continuing with the effort to reduce her non-literate population of about eight million. With the launch of Cycle 9 of the Complementary Basic Education and Remedial Education Programmes, the Complementary Education Agency hopes to integrate over 36 thousand out-of-school learners into main-stream schools whiles preparing them for this year’s BECE and WASSCE re-sits.

From 2018 the Complementary Education Agency rolled out a pilot Remedial Education Programme in the Bono East Region. It was an initiative to enable youth and adult drop-outs especially teen mothers to participate in free remedial classes to re-sit for the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE). Learners of the REP then transitioned into both the Free Senior High School programme or Free Technical and Vocational Education and Training.

The Complementary Basic Education and Remedial Education Programmes provide out-of-school learners with foundation learning, literacy, numeracy and life skills. The Ministry of Education emphasizes that government is ensuring that no child is left behind.

Besides remedial classes for dropouts, the Agency also provides occupational skills training to non-literate youth and adults, functional literacy to non-literate youth and complementary basic education to out-of-school children between 8 and 16 years.

Due to the success stories of previous enrolments, Cycle 9, is a scale up.
Under Cycle 8, the Complementary Education Agency enrolled 5000 out-of-school children in six districts in three regions – Bono, Savanna and Upper West.