The Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, popularly called Napo, has banned the importation of exercise and textbooks for public schools in the country with immediate effect.
“Henceforth, we shall not import exercise books, textbooks and teacher manuals for our public schools from countries like China again,” the minister, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia South, stated.
Napo indicated that teacher manuals, exercise books and textbooks for public schools would be produced in Ghana by Ghanaians to help boost the country’s economy and create jobs.
He stated that the move forms part of his ministry’s ‘Education for Jobs’ programme, which is geared towards helping Ghanaian businessmen to benefit financially from the educational sector.
Napo disclosed this while addressing media practitioners in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region at a press conference during the three-day tour of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The press conference, organized at the instance of the president, was to enable the media know the policies that the various ministries were planning to implement to develop the country.
The Education Minister explained that as part of the new programme, the textbooks, teacher manuals and exercise books, would be printed on regional basis to help boost the regional economy.
According to him, the publishers in the various regions should benefit from the policy.
Free Education
Napo debunked assertions by NPP’s political opponents that the free education policy would lower the standard of education, indicating that the new policy would rather instill discipline in students and boost quality education.
According to him, since pupils in the Junior High Schools (JHS) are supposed to pass the BECE before they benefit from the free education policy, they would surely be serious and learn hard to pass the examinations.
Napo stated that under the free SHS policy, which would be introduced in September, students would also get free school uniforms and other key incentives.
Source: Daily Guide
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BRAVOOO.Yes l salute you on this policy.l hope it's not for talking sake.NAPO,I don't even know how to salute you.l think the next time l see you ,l should rather embraced you.AAH NAPO WOYE BUIE.I am NDC SYMPATHIZER BUT I SUPPORT GOOD POLICY.THANK YOU GHANA.
A creative way of using technology is to engage students in education and that is exactly what Vytrak Technologies is out there to do-to make students learn in a relaxed manner The company just came up with its new desktop application called the Home School App. An app developed and wholly owned by Ghanaians. Home School App is a software that contains well structured learning materials according to the GES syllables, an app where pictures are visually displayed on each topic to provide additional understanding to the user, an app where there are BECE standard questions at the end of each topic for practice and above all a technology that displays BECE past questions from 2000-to date on each subject that can be answered and miraculously marked automatically by your machine with results displayed and comments objectively given. This also time bound according to the WAEC time. There is a bonus section which is intended to refresh student brains after a hard day reading and learning. This section contains quick quiz on areas like general knowledge, science, history, true or false, are you smart etc. These questions are fun and create a learning edge in students. This is an app that requires no internet connection let alone charges because it’s an utmost offline desktop application, an application that that is very simple and easy to install, user friendly, compatible and above all affordable despite all these numerous benefits.
Napooooo Napo! Thumbs up.
Are you that evil? how can you not see anything good in this. infact the witches in your hometown have really blinded you so much so that you dont want anything good in your life. shine your eyes! and stop being trivial.
Good move! This guy will do the job, no doubt. It's only a matter of time.
Eii so u wanna dictate to the President:)
Beautiful move, Mr Minister. Why don't you extend the ban to cover all schools in the country including the private schools?
A step in the right direction. I am NDC but salute Hon Napo for this move. Local industries must be revamp. NDC fuo emulate if we come back to power and stop this China business to enrich a few greedy bastards in the party.
The president and his appointee's are talking too much,they should get to work and stop talking plenty.The explanations is too much.Please mr.presido.