Gov’t to build ICT labs for 334 Senior High Schools – Ursula

by Wisdom K.E Hammond · April 13, 2022

Latest Education and ICT update for the Education Sector: Gov’t to build ICT labs for 334 Senior High Schools – Ursula

The government in due course will start a project which will see some 334 Senior High Schools get an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) laboratories, the Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu has disclosed.

Speaking to the media at the commissioning of two newly constructed classroom blocks at St. Margret Mary Senior High Technical and Akweibu Basic schools, she said her outfit is in talks with the Education Ministry to start the project.

“The best way to sustain any such initiative is to mainstream it. I know the curriculum has been changed. ICT education is part of the curriculum. We need to make the subject practical enough for the students

I am already having conversations with the Ministry of Education (MoE). We are in the process of providing 334 SHS with 40-seater ICT laboratories across the country,” the Ablekuma West Member of Parliament told journalists.

In a related development, the Minister for Education, Dr Adutwum has said the central government as part of efforts to improve ICT skills has begun the process to distribute computers to 700 public basic schools across the country.

In an interview with Accra-based United Television (UTV) monitored by EducationWeb, Mr Osei Adutwum said teachers will be trained on how to use the computers to facilitate the teaching and learning of ICT at the basic lower level.

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“Students in the foreign countries learn computing at the lowest level, they don’t wait till tertiary, so in March, 700 schools including those in rural areas will receive 50 computers each. Teachers will be trained on that,” Adutwum said.