- NaCCA and Parliamentary Select Committee on Education, agreed to withdraw OWOP after a petition was filed
- The removal won't happen immediately
- OWOP's content will be incorporated into other subjects through a curriculum review process
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), in collaboration with the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education, has called for the removal of the contentious “Our World and Our People” (OWOP) curriculum from basic school education.
According to NaCCA, this decision aligns with Article 103 of the 1992 Constitution and Order 250 of the Standing Orders of Parliament.
Following deliberations on June 21, 2024, NaCCA and the Ghana Publishers Association (GPA) responded to a petition submitted to the Select Committee by agreeing to withdraw the OWOP curriculum.
In a statement dated June 28, 2024, Mr. Mathew Owusu, Deputy Director-General of Technical Services at NaCCA, announced that the Committee has adopted a plan for the gradual removal of the curriculum.
The implementation of this withdrawal has been rescheduled from the 2024/2025 academic year to the 2025/2026 academic year.
It was also noted in the statement that while the OWOP textbook will no longer be part of the core syllabus after 2025/2026, its content will be integrated into other subjects during the curriculum review process.
