Deprived schools provided with basic infrastructure

Page 16, Feb 20, 2008
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah

ONE Hundred and three out of the 250 deprived senior high schools in the country were provided with basic infrastructure last year to enable them to be attractive to parents and students, the Minister of Education, Science and Sports, Professor Dominic Fobih has disclosed.
The infrastructure included classrooms, dormitories, science laboratories and libraries.
The minister who disclosed this in Parliament was answering a question posed by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Krachi East, Mr Wisdom Gidisu who wanted to know when the ministry would provide boys and girls dormitories to Oti Secondary/Technical and the Asukawkaw Senior High Schools.
Prof Fobih said provision had also been made in the 2008 budget to ensure that schools receive minimum provision of infrastructure and other facilities to make them attractive to both parents and students.
He assured the MP that the Oti Secondary/Technical and the Asukawkaw High Schools may benefit from improvement this year.
The minister also informed the House that 250 schools in all the 10 regions of the country are to be provided with facilities connected to the Internet by the end of the year.
The programme forms part of the GES plan to provide Information Communication Technology (ICT), including Internet facilities in all Senior High Schools.
But due to budgetary constraints, the programme has been divided into two phases, the first phase of which was consisted with 250 schools.
According to the Prof Fobih, work on the second phase of the programme would start by the end of 2009.
The MP for Nkwanta South, Mr Geshon Gbediame had asked the minister when the Ntruboman and Nkwanta Senior High Schools would be provided with internet facilities in line with government policy.
Prof Fobih assured the MP that the Nkwanta Senior High School is included in the first phase while the Ntruboman Senior High School is included in the second phase.