{"id":740843,"date":"2022-01-08T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/akufo-addo-to-cut-sod-for-first-accra-stem-academy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:41:45","slug":"akufo-addo-to-cut-sod-for-first-accra-stem-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/akufo-addo-to-cut-sod-for-first-accra-stem-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo to cut sod for first Accra STEM Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/43799397.295.jpg\" alt=\"The plan of the Accra STEM Academy\" title=\"The plan of the Accra STEM Academy\" width=\"295\" height=\"191\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The plan of the Accra STEM Academy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>Govt intends to build 5 STEM universities<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Govt encouraging more girls in STEM<\/p>\n<p>Akufo-Addo committed to STEM education<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will, on Wednesday, January 12, 2022, cut the sod for the construction of the first Accra STEM Academy. <\/p>\n<p>This was announced in a post by the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing soon to a community near you<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ghana&#8217;s 21st century schools. The Ministry of Education is repositioning education anchored on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSod cutting for Accra STEM Academy on Wednesday, 12th January 2022 By Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, President of the Republic,\u201d his caption, along with an attached photo, said.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, indicated that the government was committed to constructing 35 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Senior High Schools (SHSs) across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The government, according to him, has also considered the establishment of 5 STEM universities to help enhance the study of Science and Technology in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that these are all proposals the government has made in the 2022 budget statement that is currently before parliament. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fyawoseiadutwum%2Fposts%2F927209277933219&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"485\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan of the Accra STEM Academy Govt intends to build 5 STEM universities Govt encouraging more girls in STEM Akufo-Addo committed to STEM education President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will, on Wednesday, January 12, 2022, cut the sod for the construction of the first Accra STEM Academy. This was announced in a post by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}