The Varkey Foundation, a not-for-profit organization founded by Indian education billionaire Sunny Varkey to improve the standards of education for underprivileged children throughout the world, is going into a new partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Education to improve the skills of thousands of school leaders across Ghana.
The new partnership which was jointly announced by Ghana’s Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh and Sunny Varkey during a plenary session on Saturday at the ongoing Global Educations And Skills Forum (GESF) in Dubai, will build on Varkey Foundation’s four years of work in Ghana and its teacher and school leadership training programmes in Argentina and Uganda, to address the Ministry’s priority of training all in-service and aspiring school leaders to be able to manage their schools effectively. This will include using data to track progress and respond to the findings, to ensure all students receive a quality education, wherever they attend school.
The programme, funded by the Global Partnership for Education and implemented by the Varkey Foundation, will combine intensive face-to-face training to school leaders with supported periods back in school to apply new practices, with core training modules which are designed to create leaders with the skills and competencies to drive continuous school improvement.
The training will create leaders of international standard who will harness their impact and influence to lead schools effectively and promote learning-centered leadership to improve student outcomes across the school among other objectives.
The programme is scheduled to commence in June 2018 and is expected to impact over 6,000 school leaders and the students they are responsible for in the first four years alone. It will operate from three hubs, allowing teachers across all ten regions to access high quality training.
The Varkey Foundation, founded by Indian billionaire Sunny Varkey, is currently running projects in Ghana, including Making Ghanaian Girls Great!, Train for Tomorrow, and Teach to Reach Remote Classrooms.
“The partnership with the Ministry of Education marks an important step to improve the quality of education for all students across Ghana. We are delighted that the results of our work in Ghana and worldwide to date have been recognized by the Ministry of Education as an important contribution to Ghana’s education development. We support the plans for a nationwide approach to school improvement through targeted leadership training, which is in line with the Varkey Foundation’s philosophy of education,’ Muniratu Issifu, the Country Director of Varkey Foundation in Ghana said in a press statement.
Sunny Varkey, who has an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion according to FORBES, is the founder of GEMS Education, the world's largest operator of K-12 schools with more than 250 schools worldwide.
Source: Forbes
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