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Former President John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has declared that, should he win this year’s elections, he will revive the Ghanaian economy.
He declared that a new era was beginning, one in which the economic problems will be addressed by the next NDC government.
“A new dawn is on the horizon, the next NDC government will work tirelessly to restore the economy to a sound footing,” On Wednesday, April 3, 2024, John Mahama stated in conversation with Wisconsin International University College students.
He also promised that, in contrast to the current situation, which has restricted the program to a small number of locations, the next NDC administration will simplify STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education across the nation.
He claims that in order to lessen the severe difficulties with the Free Senior High School program, he would build additional Community Day Senior High Schools in heavily crowded cities in synchronization with the implementation.
John Mahama emphasized the need of include a STEM component in all subjects, which is why he wants to standardize STEM education in all senior high schools in the nation.
John Mahama stated that he will renovate the outdated Science Resource Centers in the different SHSs and use the newer laboratories in the E-blocks as the STEM centers in order to do this.
He claims that restricting STEM education to particular fields would not be beneficial for the nation, which is why his government has decided to integrate STEM education into all aspects of the educational process.
“With regard to STEM education, we are going to streamline mainstream STEM education into our educational system. We don’t believe in standalone STEM SHS like this administration is doing. We believe that to get a holistic training, even if you’re studying in the humanities, you need some form of Science and Maths with technical training.
“So, we are going to rehabilitate all the old Science Resource Centres and create them into STEM centres so that all the secondary schools can have access to STEM learning instead of a few secondary schools,” he remarked.
In addressing the Free SHS challenges, he said dormitory blocks are going to be attached to the E-blocks in the catchment areas to cater for students from outside the communities.
“In our efforts to expand access to education, we’ll revisit the initiative of Community Day Senior High Schools which were popularly called the ‘E-blocks’. These schools have been abandoned without any justifiable reason by the current administration. We are going to build more E-block community day schools in high urban population areas,” he noted.
He explained that they will utilise the available lands in the various schools to build the extra edifices since land acquisition in urban areas has become difficult.
“With the E-blocks that we have built in rural areas that have a wide catchment area, we will provide dormitory blocks so that children who come from outside where the community is, will have a place to stay while they learn” Mahama added.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
