Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister of Education says the government has allocated land for the construction of girls STEM Senior High School (SHS) in Kpone Katamanso, Accra affiliated with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).
The 12.6 acres of land will also be used for the construction of a world-class campus for AIMS to nurture Ghana and Africa s talented female students from SHS to tertiary in STEM-related fields of study.
The project, the Minister said, was part of the 11-model state-of-the art Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) SHS being built across the country to be equipped with 12 laboratories and a STEM pathway established in some existing SHS with four laboratories.
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The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Regional Center of Quality and Excellence in Education (RCQE), Saudi Arabia, to collaborate on projects in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.
In a signing ceremony which took place virtually concurrently in RCQE and IEPA in Cape Coast, the Director of IEPA, Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom remarked that, “IEPA is excited to be partnering with other Category II Institutes in education beyond West Africa, to learn, share ideas and partner on research. This partnership with RCQE is one of many that will promote the advancement of educational planning and excellence in West Africa specifically and globally as a whole.”