GES denies reports of shortage of learning materials

The Ghana Education Service, GES, has denied media reports about the shortage of basic learning materials especially chalk in schools. 

It says there is enough chalk in the system supplied to schools across the country. 

There has been public outburst by a section of the public against the wife of the Vice President Matilda Amissah Arthur’s reaction to the request of the Head teacher of Kukurantumi Presbyterian Primary School in the Eastern Region for chalk.  

Acting Public Relations officer of the GES Rev. Jonathan Bettey, said thousands of boxes have been made available to all educational directorates as far back as March to be supplied to all schools this year. 

This includes the Eastern Region which was allocated more than eighty thousand boxes of chalk. 

GBC