Government will prioritise STEM education for upper primary pupils – Education Minister

Authorities will prioritise STEM schooling for higher main pupils – Training Minister

In a bid to reinforce international competitiveness, pupils from Higher Main 4 to Senior Excessive will quickly embark on intensive research in Science, Know-how, Engineering, and Arithmetic, generally generally known as STEM.

The Minister of Training, Haruna Iddrisu, who made the announcement on April 4, revealed that the federal government is allocating vital funding to make sure the success of this initiative.

He stated this transfer goals to equip college students with the abilities wanted to thrive within the ever-evolving international job market.

Underneath the brand new schooling reform, Science, Know-how, Engineering, and Arithmetic—STEM—are on the forefront of shaping the way forward for schooling in Ghana.

In 2024, the federal government secured over 60 million {dollars} in funding from the World Financial institution to roll out STEM schooling nationwide. That very same yr, a number of Senior Excessive Colleges engaged in STEM efficiently innovated in robotics, main Ghana to victory on the Pan African Robotics Competitors.

Training specialists have since known as for the mixing of robotics into the STEM curriculum, a advice that’s gaining traction.

In a transfer to strengthen this initiative, the Ministry of Training has met with the Nationwide Coordinator of Robotics. The discussions targeted on establishing a sturdy robotics framework to make Ghanaian college students extra aggressive globally.

Present knowledge from the World Financial institution means that throughout the subsequent few years, 50% of jobs may very well be changed by robotics.

Ben Amoako, the Nationwide Robotics Coordinator, emphasised the significance of incorporating robotics into Ghana’s schooling system.

“We even have a company known as Rant Academy within the UK who’re additionally serving to in entrepreneurship coaching the place college students won’t solely come out of faculty in search of jobs however will be capable of use the abilities they need to create or pitch one thing progressive in order that they will begin working with that and that coaching has been occurring for some time,” he stated.

The Minister of Training, Haruna Iddrisu, additionally confirmed that the federal government has secured satisfactory funding to push robotics as a part of STEM schooling.

“We agree that the long run is about Science, Know-how, Engineering and Arithmetic schooling. We ourselves will revolutionize STEM schooling within the coming years. Infact, we’re presently engaged with the Director-Basic of the Ghana Training Service, the Ghana Training Belief Fund and the Ministry of Training to deploy STEM units to Higher Main 4 and Six, which ought to start subsequent tutorial yr topic to lawful procurement and acceptable recommendation by the Ghana Training Service,” he said.

He was fast to warning towards the over-reliance on robotics, warning that it may result in college students changing into lazy learners.

“As a matter of coverage, authorities will help the introduction of AI, however cautiously we have to guard towards AI producing lazy learners in our nation, that the adoption of improved know-how shouldn’t be on the peril of exhausting work.

“As a rustic, we have to prepare and produce individuals who’re employable. I imagine that the pedagogy has to alter and alter in any respect ranges of our schooling, in order that we are able to produce not essentially for business and commerce, however they might be employable,” he stated.

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