Investing in Education: The Role of Alumni in Public Basic Schools

Alumni support appeared to be one of the essential assistants in Ghana’s education system, especially at the senior high school level throughout the years.

Nevertheless, it is also vital to canal these same resources to furnish primary education or education at the basic level. This idea was encouraged by Dr Mary Asabea Ashun’s article “The Power of alumni giving: How high school alumni are changing education.” In Ghana, one and the other primary education and senior high schools have vast and extensive help to get by looking upon and inspiring on the favourable outcomes of past students.

If nothing unexpected happens, a child’s substructure shows who and how he or she will become in the nearby future.

Nevertheless, the necessity for giving  alumni especially in government schools or state schools, is extremely abandoned causing harm to the upcoming future leaders. If alumni providing to several Senior High Schools lacked a solidified substructure at their primary education they would miss the chance to brag about their various alma mater. In this country, many renowned most respected leaders were enrolled in government school, which formed and guided them to be like how they are today.

Nevertheless, they select to provide and supply enormously to their SHSs and abandon their basic schools which may be in discreditable state. When alumni increase their providing to their primary schools, it offers the pupil some sort of expectation to learn diligently with the belief of becoming like their past students. Occasionally, Haruna Iddrisu and his Deputy had their primary education in the Northern part of Ghana, of which majority of students are recognised to be doing massive in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

Accordingly, if alumni contributing is increase to government schools in the Northern Region, there will likely be a reversal in students performance indicators and the producing of renowned individuals, like both ministers. In time of the 90th anniversary celebration of the Komenda M/A Basic School ‘B’, in June 2024, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Aagyemang, the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, and Professor George Oduro, the Technical Advisor to the Education Minister, who are old students set their own selves as example for students to copy.

This represents the reality that alumni contribution, in some aspects, can help present-day students by caring for and protecting their hopes and capabilities.

Investigations depicts that, helping hands placed on education are accountable for a lurching half of world economic development in the last 30 years. Regardless, particular persons do contribute to their primary institutes, it does not give the awaiting level, by that means resulting to bad performances from students and the disrespect for tution, especially by children in the countryside.

While improving missions in government schools keeps falling behind the story can be transformed from person to alumni contribution through  improving educational facilities, providing up to date materials aiding in teaching and learning, designing a motivation programme for teachers, awarding scholarships to clever and intelligent but financially weak students and advancing mental grow to students with disabilities and needy.

Putting into effect an appeal on alumni contributing to government schools can be concluded from the 2022 Transforming Education Summit on Education Investment, which has huge eventual benefits. The damage of not putting money in education is substantial; for that reason a crucial standard transfer is necessary to prime concern and increase alumni contribution to primary schools.

In order attain SDG4, alumni contributions to basic schools must be recognised as a tactical extended investment, costless. At the moment we have to contribute to government schools and unseal the maximum capacity of the future generation. The chances are excessive to suspend.

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