SHS education to be accessible to all by 2016 - Pres Mills
Accra, Feb. 17, 2012
Government says it will by 2016 make secondary school education accessible to every Ghanaian child of school going age.
In his state of the nation’s address to parliament yesterday, President John Evans Atta Mills said between 2013 and 2015, government intends to establish additional community secondary cycle schools throughout the length and breadth of the country, particularly in under-served districts.
“The completion of the emergency classroom blocks will make it possible to increase second cycle enrolment,” he noted.
According to President Mills, about 672 emergency classroom blocks and dormitories are in various phases of completion nationwide in the various senior high schools.
Touching on the youth unemployment, the President said the introduction of the National Apprenticeship Programme and LESDEP had made a great impact on youth employment in the informal sector of the economy.
He was of the expectation that the shift of the NYEP would focus from traditional paid modules to trade and vocation modules will encourage self-employment.
With regards to the construction of additional public universities, he told the house that, the School of Fisheries at Anomabo, a satellite college of University of Cape Coast, was underway.
“Also, a head office building for the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences is under construction.”
President Mills also mentioned that work was “seriously” in progress for the construction of needed infrastructure for staff and students for the two new universities in the Volta and Brong Ahafo Regions respectively.
“Indeed, the Governing Councils of the two universities have been inaugurated and it is expected that admissions will begin when the new academic year begins sometime in September.”
He added that a lot had been achieved in terms of improved infrastructural facilities for effective teaching and learning in the existing public tertiary institutions.
“In the particular case of the University of Development Studies, we have made available funds for the expansion of infrastructural facilities and procurement of laboratory equipment and other projects,” he said.
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