The World Bank is setting up a new learning target to mobilize support for quality primary education by 2030.
According to the Bank, this is to reduce by at least half, the number of children who cannot read and understand a simple story by age 10.
The learning target focuses on reading, which the Bank says is the foundation upon which other essential skills such as numeracy and science are built.
Speaking at the 2019 End Poverty Programme in Accra, the Acting Country Manager of the World Bank, Dr Beatrix Allah-Mensah, said millions of students globally, are not learning as quality education remains a challenge in most countries.
A Deputy Minister of Education, Gifty Twum Ampofo, stated that the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education, have introduced a new Standard Base Curricula, which will ensure that challenges of numeracy and literacy are reduced to the barest minimum.
This year’s End Poverty Day focuses on “Ending Learning Poverty and what it will take” in the African Region of the World Bank.
