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General News on Friday, February 8, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-02-08
Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum
Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister of Education, rebadured Ghanaians of the government's commitment to maintaining free high school despite the difficulties that characterized the program.
He admitted the difficulties encountered in the program, which allowed public school students to benefit from free education.
The minister reiterated the government's efforts to address the infrastructure deficit, stating: "We recognize the infrastructure problems that led to the temporary introduction of the dual-track system.
"We are tackling the infrastructure deficit in our educational institutions through GETFund and other government sources," said Dr. Adutwum.
This figured in a speech read on his behalf by the Northern Regional Education Director, Alhaji Mohammed Haroon Cambodia, on the occasion of the 2019 Harmattan School School of the University of Studies on the development of Tamale.
Organized by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Counseling Service (IIRaCS) in partnership with the UDS, Harmattan School 2019 constitutes the 13th edition of the program since the launch of the program in 2017.
Professor George Oduro, former vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Coast as a political administrator, advised the government to consider returning to the drawing board with emphasis on on the goal of only offering those who really need the Free SHS. to benefit from the policy.
He advised the government to try to involve private schools in Ghana, which, he said, would have the effect of reducing the burden of the many registrations that the government takes in charge.
Mr. Oduro also called on the government to focus on the development of vocational and technical schools through the Free SHS policy to motivate people to register.
Speaking on the theme "Refocusing Education or Training on Youth Unemployment", the head of the Department of African and General Studies at UDS, Mr. Tuurosong Damasus called for that training systems in Ghana are moving from the manual to digital.
This, he explained, would help meet the demands of the labor market.
He was of the opinion that if people stopped looking at specific areas of the program and focused on improving their technological capabilities, it would allow them to operate in a changing workplace.
Mr. Damasus asked why cell phones are still banned at the high school level in the technology era.
He said that students should be allowed to use mobile phones, but in a constructive way, in order to learn in the future.
Harmattan School aims to provide researchers, civil society organizations, policymakers and non-governmental organizations with a platform for reflection on the development challenges facing northern Ghana in particular and the country in question. general.
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