The quest to develop a functional ICT educational system in the country is on course, the Inspector-General of the National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA), Dr Hilda H. Ampadu, has said.
She said the traditional mode of learning was inadequate, hence efforts by successive governments to ensure that ICT and life-long learning became key parts of the educational system.
Dr Ampadu was speaking on the topic: ICT for the provision of inclusive quality education and life-long learning , at the 72nd Annual New Year School and Conference at the University of Ghana, Legon in Accra last Wednesday.
According to Dr Ampadu, Ghana, together with countries such as Cameroon, Mauritius and Botswana, was moving towards a stable economy that placed premium on ICT applications.
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The Provost of the College of Education of the University of Ghana, Prof. Michael Tagoe, has said misinformation on COVID-19 is affecting the fight against the pandemic.
“In Ghana, there has been a barrage of false news about the virus. We have heard people say a lot of things, such as ‘the virus does not exist’, ‘the virus has been eradicated’, ‘the virus is for people in the city’, ‘alcohol cures COVID-19’, ‘steaming cures COVID-19’, and the list goes on and on.
“We have a collective responsibility, as citizens, to help our government contain the virus. Much responsibility is now in our hands to take control of our destiny and that of our children,” he said.
President Akufo-Addo with guests in a photograph after the opening session of the 2021 NewYear School at the University of Ghana, Legon.
The government is on the verge of procuring vaccines to help control and possibly bring to an end the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic.
It follows a recent surge in the number of infections across the country.
Speaking at this year’s edition of the Annual New Year School at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon in Accra, yesterday, President Akufo-Addo said that “the recent upsurge in the cases of COVID-19 infections, tells us that the virus is very much with us.”
Government has been urged to establish a health and infrastructure fund through which resources could be dedicated to tackling the current inadequate health infrastructure in the country.
This was contained in a communique issued at the end of the two-day Annual New Year School and Conference held on Wednesday, January 20, 2020, at the University of Ghana, Legon.
The communique produced by the participants of the conference and read by Dr Inusah Salifu of the Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies, University of Ghana advised the government to use the fund to create more laboratories, isolation and treatment centres, infectious disease control units and public health facilities across the country.
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Government has been urged to establish a health and infrastructure fund through which resources could be dedicated to tackling the current inadequate health infrastructure in the country.
This was contained in a communique issued at the end of the two-day Annual New Year School and Conference held on Wednesday, January 20, 2020, at the University of Ghana, Legon.
The communique produced by the participants of the conference and read by Dr Inusah Salifu of the Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies, University of Ghana advised the government to use the fund to create more laboratories, isolation and treatment centres, infectious disease control units and public health facilities across the country.