The Government has ceded 100 per cent of the printing of textbooks for pupils in basic schools to local printers. However, any publisher without an agreement with a local printer will not be considered.

Consequently, all publishers who are already pre-qualified have been asked to present signed agreements with local printers.

For a start, the textbooks to be printed will cover kindergarten to primary six.

The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, who disclosed this in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra last Friday, said; "Any publisher without an agreement with a local printer will not be considered in the offer."