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Minister of Education, Yaw Osei Adutwum, has expressed his commitment and that of the President's to providing quality education in Ghana.

He referred to President Akufo-Addo's free Senior High School policy and pledged that the government will stop at nothing to improve the education sector.

One other major project he believes would help the sector is the introduction of the Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) aimed at giving students practical vocational skills.

He revealed that Ghana's gross Tertiary enrolment ratio is eighteen (18) percent as compared to other countries which have achieved forty (40) to over ninety (90) percent meaning less number of Ghanaian students get to the Tertiary institutions.

In view of this, Hon. Yaw Osei Adutwum emphasized that, under his leadership at the Education Ministry, will come various transformative programmes and projects to increase the Tertiary enrolment ratio as well as achieving quality education.

The Minister touched on some important interventions by the government in the education sector. 

"There is no country that can develop without reaching 40 percent. Your development gallops without drawing back when you get 40 percent. When you take countries like South Korea, theirs is 93.6 percent. So, the President says he won't sit idle when he knows this (quality education) lifts a country's development and so, during his recent State of the Nation Address, he pledged that by the year 2030, Ghana's gross Tertiary enrolment ratio should rise to 40 oercent. This is the task he has given me at the Ministry of Education to do all I can for it to materialize. This was ratified in a document in 2018 called the Education Sector Strategic Plan. The previous NDC had commenced this plan and we're continuing it."

"We have something we call the Open University. It's a University that we shall open across the country so as to provide give the opportunity to learn using their computer. The President also says vocational skills is pertinent to the country's development, that is why we have introduced TVET," he said.

He spoke in an interview on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'' Monday morning.