Auditor-General — Year ended 31 December 2023 Verified from PDF

Colleges of Education

Report of the Auditor-General on the Public Accounts of Ghana: Technical Universities and Colleges of Education
Source: Ghana Audit Service, full report (PDF)Publisher: Ghana Audit Service

The headline number

2023 total irregularities
GH¢8.0m
GH¢7,975,574
Largest type: Debts/Loans
34.7%
GH¢2.8m of the total
Institutions audited
46
Recoverable
GH¢3.5m
Administrative (not recoverable): GH¢4.4m

By type of irregularity

2023
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TypeAmountShare
Debts/LoansGH¢2,766,64834.69%
Procurement/StoresGH¢2,718,20534.08%
ContractGH¢1,814,13722.75%
PayrollGH¢608,8227.63%
TaxGH¢41,4990.52%
CashGH¢26,2630.33%

By region

Part I, Table 2b (p. 6)
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RegionTotal
Upper WestGH¢3,439,967
EasternGH¢2,478,091
AshantiGH¢732,223
CentralGH¢532,167
Western NorthGH¢459,266
AhafoGH¢216,601
Greater AccraGH¢90,996
OtiGH¢26,263
BonoGH¢0
Bono EastGH¢0
North EastGH¢0
NorthernGH¢0
Upper EastGH¢0
VoltaGH¢0
WesternGH¢0
Each region's total is summed across all audited institutions in that region.

Notable findings

Examples from the report
  • Contracts at Tumu College of Education awarded above the tender committee's threshold without Central Tender Review Committee approvalGH¢2.61m
  • Fees owed by students to colleges of educationGH¢2.05m
  • Outstanding amounts owed to suppliers and service providers (Eastern Region)GH¢1.81m
  • Funds not accounted for at Dambai College of EducationGH¢26,263
No multi-year comparison: Part I, Table 1b (p. 1). The report gives no multi-year comparison for colleges of education.

Notes

  • 46 colleges of education; all but Nusrat Jahan Ahmadiyya College of Education submitted accounts.
  • Savannah Region has no college of education in the report's regional table.
  • Procurement (GH¢2,613,340) and stores (GH¢104,865) are combined here.
  • The summary tables of this report are images in the PDF; figures were read from Part I, pp. 1–6.