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Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang
Kumasi, March 14, GNA – The Ministry of Education has made available 7,200 laptop computers for distribution to 300 basic schools in the Ashanti Region as government’s efforts at enhancing the teaching and learning of Information Communication Technology (ICT) intensifies.
This comes under the basic schools computerization project, a joint initiative of the rLG Communications and the government.
The beneficiary schools were picked from 27 out of the 30 districts with each of them receiving 24 computers.
The Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, spoke about the importance of ICT in the current globalize world and said the distribution of the computers was to ensure that the youth become competitive in the global market.
She praised teachers in the region for the good job they were doing – winning the ultimate prize in the National Best Teacher/Worker Awards for three years running, and urged them to continue to work hard.
Mr Kofi Sarfo-Kantanka, the Regional Education Director, said the nation could simply not ignore the dangers of being left behind by globalization and welcomed the initiative to boost the teaching and learning of computer technology and appealed to all stakeholders to support it.
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