President
John Dramani Mahama has reiterated his government's commitment to
construct over 200 Senior High Schools in various communities to boost
the nation's education system.
Addressing questions from senior
journalists in the country as part of his first year in office,
President Mahama disclosed that plans are underway to undertake the
first phase of the project this year.
According to him, the
Education Ministry under the behest of the sector Minister, Professor
Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, has commissioned the architectural plans
intended to commence the project as promised by his government.
He
indicated during the forum that "in the course of this year, the
technical team came out with the criteria for deciding where the schools
should be sited. And the first criteria was to site a Secondary School
in all the new districts that they have created that were without
Secondary Schools. The next criteria was to site Secondary Schools in
all districts that did not have Secondary Schools. And the third was to
identify districts in which they already have Secondary Schools but the
pressure for Secondary education was high.”
Fifty Secondary
Schools will be established in various vicinities and construction of
the second phase of the project which will see another fifty Day
Community Secondary Schools built will all commence this year, 2014;
President Mahama said.
“The Ministry has also commissioned the
drawing of the architectural plans which have done. Models of the
schools have been produced and displayed…This year we going to start
with the first fifty but we are also going to start with the second
fifty. So, we intended to start work on two batches of fifty Community
day Secondary Schools this year."
He assured Ghanaians that his
government is "on track to deliver on that promise and it’s commitment
to be made. And I am committed to ensuring that we increase access for
Secondary education for our children.” |
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