The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has on behalf of President Akufo-Addo, pledged to commit at least 23 per cent of the national budget from 2021-2025 towards education development.

This commitment is to help train the assertive and critical mass of Ghanaian youth for the 21st Century.

Speaking at the ongoing Global Education Summit, Dr Adutwum said the country last year committed 23 per cent of the nation's budget towards the development of education in the country.

With this pledge, the country has exceeded the global 20 per cent benchmark.

The new announcement means the nation would continue with the same percentage of support towards the development of the education sector in the country from now till the end of 2025.

Dr Adutwum was speaking at the "FINANCING FOR TRANSFORMATION" session of the Global Education Summit, which had the theme: Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025, where Heads of State of GPE partner countries discuss the way forward for transforming education outcomes

A centre-piece of the summit has allowed leaders to make five-year pledges to support GPE's work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories.

The pledge made by Dr Adutwum on behalf of President Nana Addo was in fulfilment of the conference objective of every country pledging at least 20 per cent of its annual budget to support the development of education in their country.

Dr Adutwum told the conference that Ghana, as part of an effort to catch up with the lost time due to the covid-19 pandemic, introduced a couple of initiatives to improve education development.

He mentioned introducing the Ghana Learning Television and radio initiatives as interventions that were introduced to help pupils learn through watching television and listening to the radio.

This initiative involved teachers teaching on television and radio to listen and view the pupil's whiles they stayed home due to the pandemic preventing them from going to schools.

Again, he mentioned the presentation of reading materials to early graders to study at home during the lockdown season and beyond.

Dr Adutwum assured the conference of the government of Ghana's readiness to put in place various measures to improve the development of education in the country for the benefit of the people.

He was upbeat that with the current development and initiatives being put in place, there was hope that Ghana's education would soon improve massively.