Basic School Teachers’ Level of Knowledge of the Capitation Grant Policy and How the Grant Affects Enrolment and Facilities in Basic Schools in the Kassena Nankana Municipality

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to investigate the extent to which teachers of basic schools know about the capitation grant policy and to find out how the capitation has affected pupils’ enrolment and facilities in the basic schools in the Kassena Nankana municipality.  Sixty-one respondents including six head teachers and fifty-five teachers were selected from six separate educational circuits in the municipality and given questionnaires to respond to out of which fifty-five of the questionnaires were returned to the researcher. The study revealed that, teachers in the public basic schools in the municipality do not have enough knowledge about the capitation grant policy. In addition, it is clear from the findings that, much as the introduction of the capitation grant policy has led to an increase in enrolment of pupils in schools it rather led to a little improvement in educational facilities such as buildings, furniture, text books among others which does not commensurate to the increased enrolment of pupils. Teachers and head teachers alike should be given some education on the capitation grant on what and how it should be used in the schools.

Keywords: know, capitation grant, affected, enrolment, facilities,