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Government to make ICT teaching,
learning compulsory next year
Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot
Accra, May 17, Ghanadot - Minister of Education, Mr. Alex
Tetteh-Enyo has announced that from next year, teaching and
learning of Information Communication Technology (ICT)
related subjects would be made compulsory in all basic and
senior high schools throughout the country.
Towards this realization, the government, in partnership
with a United States company had procured an initial 3000
computers to ensure smooth start of the exercise.
Mr Tetteh-Enyo disclosed this at a ceremony by Planting
Technology International (PTI) an NGO at Somanya in the Yilo
Krobo District of the Eastern Region to dedicate 40
computers fully installed with internet service donated by
the PTI to the Yilo-Krobo Senior High School.
Before the donation, six students of the school have had to
share one computer during classes, making teaching and
learning of the course unattractive and inefficient.
The Minister, whose speech was read for him by Mr Evans
Dzikunu, Director of Human Resource at the Ministry of
Education, said this was to ensure that students were
knowledgeable in the area of ICT before reaching higher
levels of education where they would apply the knowledge in
their everyday activities.
He said since the use of ICT required literacy, the Ministry
was working to improve delivery and content of education to
reduce illiteracy and produce a well-round information
technology literate society.
He said his Ministry would liaise with the Ministries of
Communication and Information to develop the necessary
policy and incentives to attract businesses to invest in the
provision of infrastructure to make the use of ICT
widespread.
Ms Andrea Papito, Director of Operations at PTI noted that
the donation was to offer a life-changing experience to the
students and the entire township to exploit more
opportunities in the world.
Ms Papito added that the donation also formed part of the
PTI’s contribution to transforming lives of people in
deprived communities.
The donation to Yilo-Krobo SHS was the second project of the
PTI in the country and it is currently working on similar
projects at Agogo in the Eastern Region, Nyinampong in the
Ashanti Region and Bole in the Northern Region.
She called on the students to make maximum use of the
facility to improve their studies.
Mr M.L Bawah, Headmaster of the school appealed to
government to renovate the school’s boys dormitory, the
assembly hall and administration block which are in
deplorable conditions.
Ghanadot
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