The Ghana Education Service has introduced a revised National Inspectorate Board Handbook for the inspection of Public and Private Pre-Tertiary Schools in Ghana.
The handbook introduces a new approach to streamline inspection procedures and enforce standards for quality education and improved learning outcomes aimed at meeting a minimum standard of quality education.
The Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh who spoke at the forum with stakeholders to outdoor the handbook said the NIB is expected to inspect 2,381 schools across the country.
“In the 2019/2020 academic year NIB will inspect 2,381 schools across all sixteen regions. 448 schools have so far been inspected in the first term of this academic year.”
“In order to ensure a larger accountability pool and prompt decision making for quality education, the inspection reports, with a wider network of stakeholders including Regional Ministries, Members of Parliament, MMDCEs, Regional, Municipal and District Directors of Education, Circuit Supervisors and School Mangers,” the Minister added.
He also said the “NIB has taken over the registration of pre-tertiary institutions in Ghana from the Ghana Education Service (GES)
Lead inspector Mr. K. Aggrey revealed that the NIB was responsible for grading pre-tertiary school according to results gathered from the inspection.
“Based upon our findings on the four-point scale, everything is digitised and feed in our input and then the result comes out. So we don’t make that personal judgment. Therefore biases are taken away from it,” Mr. K. Aggrey said.