Working towards achieving the overall goal of providing relevant and quality education for all Ghanaians including the disadvantaged, to enable them acquire skills, which will help make them functionally literate and productive to facilitate poverty alleviation and promote rapid socio-economic growth. This makes the Ministry responsible for:
Expanding access to quality education at all levels of education.
Providing and improving infrastructural facilities.
Providing free education at the basic level.
Making tertiary education more cost effective
Raising the quality of teaching and learning for effective outcomesMaking education more relevant to national goals and aspirations by focusing on technical and vocational education
Establish a well co-ordinated and integrated system of scientific, technological and social innovation for public private sector partnership and development.