Prof Asha Kanwar, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning, met with Ghana’s Honourable Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, in Accra on 2 August 2016.

The two leaders discussed skills development for girls, open schooling and higher education. COL recently developed courses for open schooling and will deploy the materials in Ghana.

A number of COL initiatives are currently active in Ghana, including the Lifelong Learning for Farmers initiative, the INVEST Africa partnership, teacher education and the Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration and Public Administration Programme.