A collaboration between the Minister of Sports and Recreation and the Minister of Education would ensure a sustainable revival of Physical Education in Ghana.
In 2024, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment of the Ministry of Education published a Physical Education and Health teacher’s manual for Senior High Schools.
Physical Education, over the years, has faced a number of challenges, such as the lack of resources at schools, inadequate professional trainers, and short allocated time in class timetables.
Hon. Kofi Adams, the Minister of Sports and Recreation, disclosed in an interview with Max TV that he had held discussions with Hon. Haruna Iddrisu about school sports, with a focus on Physical Education.
“I’ve engaged my senior colleague, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, who is the Minister of Education, and our discussions centred on school sports. How, together with his Ministry we are going to collaborate to make sure the teaching of the sports and the practice of the sports go in tandem.
While the Ministry of Education through the Ghana Education Service (GES) will continue to offer the teaching of the sports—that’s the Physical Education part of the sports—so we will be collaborating.”
The plan to use the proposed sports fund earnings from the betting tax would be able to address the challenges or barriers in school sports in general—funding the training of professionals to teach and develop talents in schools and providing adequate resources.
