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The Ghana Education Service (GES) will introduce, starting next September, a new curriculum based on standards that will be rolled out from kindergarten to grade six in primary schools.
According to President Nana Akufo-Addo, this program is based on best practices from around the world.
In his third speech on the state of the nation before Parliament on Thursday, the president said the new program will aim to make "Ghanaian children confident, innovative, creative, creative, digitally educated, well-trained, patriotic" .
According to him, mathematics, science, reading, writing and creativity will be at the heart of the new curriculum.
The president said that poverty should not be used as an excuse for a child not to reach his full potential.
"It makes me hot to be able to say now that public sector education is free between kindergarten and high school and that this year, legislation move to redefine basic education to include high school, "he said.
With regard to technical education, President Akufo-Add announced that the construction of 10 state-of-the-art technical and vocational education (TVET) training centers would be ready this year.
"For too long, we have been preaching the importance of TVET without doing much to demonstrate it. We send or urge young people to go to poorly equipped TVET centers, and we are surprised that they are not enthusiastic, "he said.
He added that the new TVET centers would be world clbad and attractive to badure young people that they would not be sent to the second best option.
President Akufo-Addo said his government is also working to demystify science, mathematics and technology.
As a result, he said that 10 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) centers were being built in the country to support the introduction of STEM into basic education after the completion of a successful pilot phase.
"So we can be confident that young people in Ghana will be able to develop skills that will put them at the same level as their peers around the world," he said.
He announced that the importance of science, technology and innovation led him to appoint a Presidential Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Innovation (PACSTI).
The Council will advise the President on how to integrate the application of science and technology into the country's development, led by a distinguished scientist, Professor Edward Ayensu.
The president also revealed that "we will present this year to Parliament a bill on higher education policy that will put all public universities under surveillance." One common law and make the administration of public universities less burdensome. "
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