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Gov't will make French language compulsory in all basic schools - Education Minister

Minister for Education Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, said the plan is to make Ghana's youthful population versed in the language.

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He said "There was the need to redefine the country’s relations with the French government to promote the speaking and learning of French at the tender age."

He added that although French was currently being offered in the Junior High Schools and was an option in the six programmes at the Senior High Schools, the results at the Basic Education levels remained a challenge.

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Speaking at a meeting with a delegation from the French Embassy in Accra who paid a courtesy call on him, he said government had embraced the teaching and learning of French as the second foreign language studied in the educational institutions in addition to English, the official language.

Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh noted that the teaching of French language at the basic level, there might not be the need to teach French at the public institutions

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