GETFund revives funding for new colleges of education projects
The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has announced plans to resume funding for the establishment and upgrading of eight colleges of education that have remained stalled since 2017.
The Deputy Administrator of the Fund, Alhasan Sualihu Dandaawa, confirmed that contracts had been awarded for the commencement of works in the eight proposed colleges.
He announced this after a seven-day inspection tour across GETFund-sponsored project sites in northern Ghana.
Tour of abandoned projects
The tour covered four regions—Savannah, North East, Upper West and Northern—where a number of long-abandoned educational infrastructure projects were assessed with a view to reactivating and completing them.
It may be recalled that under the first coming of the President John Mahama-led administration, there was a policy initiative to increase the number of public colleges of education by 10, with the goal of expanding access to quality teacher education for basic and senior high schools.
In alignment with this national priority, GETFund allocated funding to support the rollout of these new institutions.
Locations
These include Ajumako College of Education in the Central Region, Katamanso College of Education in the Greater Accra Region, Bole College of Education in the Savannah Region, Gambaga College of Education in the North East Region and St Vincent College of Education in Yendi, Northern Region.
Other institutions that benefitted from these allocations are Al-Farouq College of Education in Wenchi, St Ambrose College of Education in Dormaa-Akwamu, and Bia Lamplighter College of Education in Debiso.
Mr Dandaawa noted that he had personally visited three of those project sites where work had stalled since the Mahama administration left office in 2017.
Commitment of trustees
He assured stakeholders that the current leadership of GETFund, under Administrator Paul Adjei and the Board of Trustees, had made financial provisions in the 2025 distribution formula to restart those critical projects.
The Deputy Administrator emphasised that GETFund remained fully committed to revitalising educational infrastructure across the country.
Mr Dandaawa explained that as part of the government’s broader “reset” development agenda, the fund was determined to ensure that those major educational projects were not only revived but also completed without further delay.
