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IEPA Celebrates 2023 International Day of Education

The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence for West Africa located at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, continues to spearhead efforts on the creation of standards in teaching, intellectual enquiry, students engagement and professional practice. 

The IEPA, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) - the Cape Coast Metro Education Directorate, planned activities to commemorate the 2023 International Day of Education. 

The IEPA as a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence is two years old!
Hurray! The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) is two years old as a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence for West Africa.
Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom, Director-General of IEPA, UCC appointed as National Convenor for the 2022 United Nations/UNESCO Transforming Education Summit.

The Director-General of the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), University of Cape Coast (UCC), Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom, has been appointed by the President of the Republic of Ghana as the “National Convenor” for the 2022 United Nations/UNESCO Transforming Education Summit (TES). His appointment was contained in a letter to the Hon. Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, dated 8th June 2022. 

IEPA Holds 1st Policy Dialogue on Innovative Pedagogies.

The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence for West Africa, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Education Commission, has organised a two-day policy dialogue on Innovative Pedagogies in Accra.

The Policy Dialogue, the first to be organized under the Innovative Pedagogy Project, aimed at creating awareness of Innovative Pedagogies as well as engage stakeholders to discuss ways of making education inclusive, engaging and adaptive, especially at the primary level.

Innovative Pedagogies Project: Encouraging Inclusive, Engaging, Adaptive and Playful Ways of Teaching

The IEPA is proud to be the “Consultant” for Ghana on the Innovative Pedagogies Project (IPP) by the Education Commission. The IPP is a project aimed at making education inclusive, engaging, and adaptive at the primary school level. 

Concurrently running in Kenya and Rwanda, the IEPA was selected among other institutions who expressed interest in the project, as a result of its expertise in educational research. For more than four decades, IEPA has been driving excellence and influencing policy direction in the education sector of Ghana. 

What Happened to Dropout Rates after COVID-19 School Closures in Ghana?

This blog is the first in a series from PREPARE: a consortium of research organisations from Ghana (IEPA), Kenya (APHRC), Malawi (CERT), Senegal (CRDES), and Pakistan (tbd), all focused on the educational challenges posed by COVID-19.

2022 International Day of Education: IEPA Celebrates the Day with School Children

The Institute for Educational planning and administration (IEPA) has organised an educational forum at the Imam Khomeni School in Amamoma, Cape Coast, as part of activities to celebrate the International day of Education.

A team from IEPA made up of the Director- General and other senior members,  spent time to talk to the students on the importance of education focusing on the theme for the celebrations, “Changing Course, Transforming Education”.

IEPA Joins Other UNESCO Educational Centres Worldwide to Celebrate International Day of Education 2022

The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), a UNESCO Category II Centre for West Africa, located at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast - Ghana, joins other UNESCO Educational Centres to celebrate the “International Day of Education 2022”.

This year’s celebrations, the fourth to be celebrated since the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution for its celebration on 3rd December 2018, is being observed under the theme, “Changing Course, Transforming Education”.

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