EDUCATION: NaCCA CAUTIONS SCHOOLS ON THE USE OF UNAPPROVED TEXTBOOKS

Education is the purposeful attempt at using appropriate strategies to develop individual's knowledge, skills, attitudes and skills to make them become productive members of society (Addai-Munumkum, 2021). The medium through which Education is delivered is curriculum from the latin word "currere". From the above definition of Education, it can be concluded that education is the driving force for the development of every nation since it is only through education that people can be trained to become useful members of the society. It is in the plight of this that every country does not make fun off its education. The curriculum which is a body of structured knowledge provides an opportunity for education to be given. In Ghana, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of Ghana is an independent statutory body responsible for curriculum development. It is mandated by by the Education Regulatory Bodies Act 2020 (Act 1023) to approve all teaching and learnng for use in pre-tertiary schools in Ghana. It recently review the curriculum in order to satisfy the changing needs of the country. The review brought many inconveniences to teachers due to lack of text books to support the implementation of the new curriculum. NaCCA has now approved some textbooks at different levels to be used. The Council has however cautioned heads of pre-tertiary schools as well as parents on the use of unapproved textbooks. This was made known in a letter signed by John Mensah Anang, Acting Director General for NaCCA. Further, the Council stated that they will soon embark on random visits to pre-tertiary schools (both public and private) to monitor the situation and that any school found to be using unapproved textbooks such as 'Golden History of Ghana for Basic 6'shall be brought to book. It added that same shall be applied by those publishers. The list of approved textbooks can be accessed on the agency's official website (htttp://www.naccca.gov.gh). It further stated.