He said the transformation was axiomatic in the accession of the Chargeless Senior High School programme, the admission in infrastructure, improvements in admission to education, and the architecture of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Centres as able-bodied as STEM Senior High Schools (SHSs)
He additionally cited class reviews, improvements in acquirements outcomes, gender adequation in apprenticeship access, and advancing efforts to authorize added universities as indicators of the government’s advance and adherence to animal ability development
Delivering what he termed the State of Apprenticeship in Ghana Address in Accra yesterday, he said, that the government had fabricated apprenticeship bigger than afore and was on advance to do more. “We may not be area we appetite to be, but we are not area we acclimated to be,” he said at the event, which brought calm admiral from the Ministry and Ghana Apprenticeship Service, active of schools, students, and added stakeholders
Aided by an acoustic presentation, Dr Adutwum, who is the Member of Assembly for Bosomtwe in the Ashanti Region, accent how the government’s advance in the area was acute for civic development
On infrastructure, he mentioned that basal schools had been refurbished with new ones congenital beyond the country, in accession to the architecture of boarding accessories for at atomic six Community Day schools and new archetypal schools in areas including Juaben and Sunyani
He acclaimed that 11 STEM SHSs had been congenital in areas including Awaso, Accra, and Koase, while STEM centres had been accustomed at 19 absolute SHSs, including Mfantsipim in Cape Coast, to accouter acceptance with the requisite abilities for the fourth automated revolution
Dr Adutwum additionally mentioned that the government had completed science laboratories at Kumasi High School, Aburi Girls, Aflao Community Day School, Okuapem SHS, and St. Louis SHS
He said the chiffonier approval of chargeless compulsatory accessory apprenticeship would advice consolidate efforts to admission admission to SHS, while the bills for the enactment of at atomic six new universities, currently afore assembly would aggrandize tertiary education
He additionally acclaimed that the government had additional Technical and Vocational Apprenticeship and Training (TVET) by advance schools and accretion admission to them
Regarding the Chargeless SHS policy, which he said had accomplished gender parity, Dr Adutwum asserted that it had decidedly bigger acquirements outcomes, adverse to claims that it had breakable the affection of education
Citing the West African Accessory School Certificate Examination, he acclaimed that in 2015, alone 45.2 per cent of acceptance becoming a acclaim account in English Language, but by 2023, this amount had risen to 73.11 per cent, with acceptance accomplishing grades from A1 to C6
He mentioned agnate improvements in added amount capacity and declared that the Chargeless SHS programme had enabled the poor and underprivileged to admission accessory education
In agreement of enrollment, he acclaimed that the Northern Region leads with a 95 per cent acceptance rate, followed carefully by the Savannah, North East, Upper East, and Upper West regions
Dr Adutwum thanked stakeholders in the area for their addition to the accomplishment by the government
BY JONATHAN DONKOR