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Government asks Anumuah
Committee to address concerns on RME
Accra, Nov. 28, Ghanadot/GNA - The Government has asked the
Committee on education reforms to address concerns about the
re-introduction of religious and moral education as a key
subject in first cycle schools.
"The Government's view is that in a spirit of accommodation
and compromise, the Anamuah Committee on Educational Reform
and the Ghana Education Service on the one hand, should
discuss and address this and other pertinent issues in a way
that will enrich the on-going Reform to the benefit of the
entire nation," it said in a statement in Accra signed by Mr
D.K. Osei, Secretary to the President.
To this end, it said, President John Agyekum Kufuor had
directed the Minister of Education to initiate and oversee
the necessary meetings.
Government said it had taken notice of the raging debate,
which had been generated by the Pastoral Letter published by
the Catholic Bishops' Conference at the end of its Plenary
Session in Kumasi on November 9, 2007, and endorsed by the
Christian Council of Ghana, among others.
It said a critical issue raised in the Letter was the need
to re-introduce Religious and Moral Education as a key
subject on the curriculum of basic schools.
"While government remains fully committed to the New
Education Reform Policy, which was launched just last
September, it is not in principle against having Religious
and Moral Education as a key subject on the School
Curriculum," it said.
GNA
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