Construction of classrooms for four-year programme yet to take off

Tema, June 4, GNA - With barely three months for the start of the four-year Senior High School (SHS) programme, construction of new classrooms is yet to start in Tema Technical Institute (TTI). The institute, which is a day school, needs at least a six-unit classroom block by September for the in-take of form one students for the 2010/2011 academic year.

Mr George Torgbor Provincal, Principal of the Institute, told the GNA that without new classrooms, TTI would not be able to admit the estimated 400 new students in September. Mr Provincal said he had received assurance from the Ghana Education Service that TTI would benefit from the construction of classrooms by government.

He appealed to parents and students not to reject placements to technical institutions with the excuse that technical and vocational education were meant for students with bad grades. Mr Provincal said technical education had taken a different turn as students in all the 26 technical institutions in the country now study the core subjects like their mates in the SHS. He said the core subjects - Mathematics, English Language and Integrated Science - were being taught alongside the Technical subjects. Mr Provincal said with the introduction of the core subjects into technical education, products of technical institutions now have the flexibility to further their education in either a university or a Polytechnic.