GBT donates books to schools in Adansi East

New Edubiase (Ash), Sept. 23, GNA - The Ghana Book Trust (GBT) has donated 1,000 books, mostly on sciences, to schools in the Adansi East District of Ashanti as part of its assistance to education in the district.

Mr Twumasi Amponsah, the District Director of Education, who announced this said, the Trust has also promised to provide the district with computers to support the study of science and technology.

Speaking at the close of the week-long Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (STME) clinic at New Edubiase at the weekend, he said the district assembly had instituted a 40 million-cedi scholarship scheme for brilliant but needy students in the district. Mr Amponsah therefore, urged heads of educational institutions in the district to encourage and guide their pupils to apply the scholarships.

Seventy students, comprising 50 girls and 20 boys selected from JSS and SSS in the district attended the clinic.

Mr Amponsah said priority would be given to girls who wished to study science subjects at the SSS since it was the objective of the assembly and the district education office to give maximum support to girls to study the sciences.

Mr Dominic Yeboah, the District Chief Executive, called for the elimination of obstacles militating against the study of science and mathematics by girls.

He appealed to the Ghana Education Service to support the assembly to establish science resource centres in most of the basic schools in the district where both teachers and students could upgrade their knowledge in the current trends in science and technology.