Parents asked to encourage children to pursue STEM programmes

By
Dennis Peprah/Fawzia Seidu, GNA

Abesim (B/R), Dec.
2, GNA – Parents have been urged to encourage 
children to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) programmes to build the manpower for enhanced local content participation
in the oil and gas sector.

Dr Emmanuel Yamoah
Tenkorang, a Senior Research fellow at the University of Cape Coast, said this
when he facilitated a media training workshop held at Abesim near Sunyani at
the weekend.

It was organized by
Wacam, a civil society organisation working in the extractive sector, to
sensitise the media on local content participation and whip up interest in
reporting on Oil and Gas.

Dr Tenkorang noted
that though Ghana had a local content regulation to govern its oil and gas, the
limited number of professionals and students not pursuing the STEM programmes
made it difficult to employ Ghanaians as expected.

He called on
technical universities to be innovative and make STEM programmes attractive for
students to pursue.

Mrs Hannah
Owusu-Koranteng, Associate Executive Director of Wacam, called on the media to
champion the course of communities directly or indirectly affected by mining.

She urged them to
ensure that the fundamental human rights of people in those communities were
protected.

GNA