Abstract
Worldwide, quality education is a platform for social and personal development. In recent times, pupils in basic schools in Nandom Municipality seem not to acquire critical learning skills and consequently are underperforming. This paper investigates the interrelated and multi-dimensional factors affecting quality education in basic schools in the Nandom Municipality. Through the system andhuman capital theories, the paper draws a link between the various kinds of educational inputs pupils receive, the processing of such inputs and their outcomes, which reflect in their academic performance at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The study employed a mixed research methods design. Cluster sampling technique and purposive sampling technique were used to selectrespondents. The study found that many pupils are not acquiring foundational knowledge in Literacy and Mathematics as reflected in the BECE performance due to inadequate educational resources, poor school management and supervision, and family socio-economic background factors. The study concludes that the quest for quality education for pupils would continue to be illusive unless thefundamentals underpinning quality education such as school resources and management are improved. It is recommended that government provides adequate educational resources for schools and reinforces the decentralisation concept of school management.
 Keywords: Quality Education, Resources, Management, Pupils, Learning Achievements
Highlights
Quality education is the most powerful tool for developing efficient human resource and prosperous society in every country
Quality education creates a solid platform for democracy, promotes national identity, builds healthy nations and individuals, and serves as a foundation for sustainable development across the globe (Suriyankietkaew & Hallinger, 2019; Haseena& Mohammed, 2015)
This section is organised into school input factors, school management and teacher factors, and family background factors affecting quality education delivery
Summary
Quality education is the most powerful tool for developing efficient human resource and prosperous society in every country. Quality education creates a wellbalanced and well-informed societies and individuals with the relevant knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that enable them to live healthy lives and contribute effectively to national development (Madani, 2019; UNICEF, 2015). Over the last three decades, the concepts of equality in educational access, retention and in recent times, quality education have become a common mantra and often invoked among policy makers and activists in the global south. This is due to the disparity in academic performance between rural and urban schools as a result of disproportionate access to educational resources. Quality education is about how well students are learning in schools (Schindler et al, 2015).Babalola (2004) defined quality education as the worth of education in terms of the inputs, teaching and learning processes and the outcomes
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