President has reiterated the critical importance of science education for students, urging them to embrace Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) for a brighter future. He noted that STEM plays crucial role in Ghana's socioeconomic development.
The President said this in his remarks at the opening of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) high-level meeting of key stakeholders in Africa's science-policy-practice nexus in Accra.
The two-day meeting being organised by the AAS in partnership with the Government of Ghana and the African Union (AU), African Scientific Research, Innovation Council (AU-ASRIC), and AfroChampions seeks to celebrate progress made towards achieving Africa's Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Agenda while taking stock of opportunities, priorities, and imperatives for scientific cooperation with Africa.
President Mahama reiterated the need for the Government to start building more Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) secondary schools, adding that every secondary school should be a STEM school. "And so, we don't have to build stand-alone specialized STEM schools but to build STEM blocks and laboratories in every secondary school so that every child can have the same experience," he said.
