Emphasis Placed on vocational education
The Mayor of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has inspected a 1300 square meters Vocational Training School being constructed by the Chinese government under the millennium school project.
The three storey building infrastructure which has been completed and situated at Okpoti near Dansoman in the Greater Accra Region, will accommodate forty two (42) students in each of the eighteen classrooms.
The AMA acquired a grant of US$6.68million from the Chinese government towards the construction of the facility.
According to the Mayor, the project will help the educational sector by opening new chapters in the country’s developmental agenda.
The building is a 4500 square metres with classrooms, offices, laboratories, library rooms, student kitchen, desks, chairs, computer lab, warehouses and a standby generator and a water treatment plant.
The Mayor also took the opportunity to visit other Millennium City Schools, and indicated that the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is committed to improving educational standards within the Accra Metropolis.
According to the Mayor, sod will be cut for work to begin on another eight schools in the next three months to bring the total number of the Millennium City schools to be constructed to 110.
Speaking to the Media during the tour, the Mayor averred that the Assembly would ensure that in every three months, at least five of the Millennium City Schools is completed.
The Mayor was impressed about the fast work being done on the school facilities, indicating that, the Assembly has high maintenance plans for all the facilities under construction.
"We will ensure that our Works Department will keep an eye on structures, to ensure that they are always safe," he said.
The new schools are some of the 100 new classroom blocks being built under the Accra Millennium City Schools project.
The new blocks, with a library, computer laboratory, washrooms, science laboratory, staff common room, is one of modern structures to accommodate Primary and Junior High School pupils who were left without permanent classroom structures following the abolition of the shift system in the metropolis.
Dr. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije said as part of the Assembly’s efforts to turn Accra into a millennium city, it is constructing one hundred (100) of state of the art basic schools and will continue to add more.
According to him, the Assembly has completed eight (8) already and more of these schools are at various stages of completion.
Dr. Okoe Vanderpuije also said the assembly has constructed over five hundred classroom blocks as part of measures being put in place to help eradicate the shift system in the Accra metropolis.
