Ministry of Education donates laptops to teachers

The Ministry of Education on Thursday donated 10,000 laptops and 100 projectors to the Ghana Education Service for onward distribution to basic school teachers across the country.

Speaking to Regional Directors of Education in Accra before handing over the laptops, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, the Minister of Education, said the project which started in 2012 had so far delivered 35,000 laptops to teachers.

She said, after the first delivery of 25,000 laptops in 2012, it became imperative that the project was briefly stopped to enable the Ministry to develop more content in the laptops for effective teaching and learning.

She said the centrality of the teacher in the learning process was very important and it was in the right direction that teachers were supported with technological gadgets to facilitate their work.

Prof Opoku- Agyemang said the provision of the laptops by government was not intended to replace the teacher in the classroom but to make the work easier and friendly.

She said human touch was fundamental to the success of education and government would not jeopardize it.

The Minister said government was also working assiduously to ensure the acquisition of solar powered laptops to be given to schools without electricity.

She urged the beneficiary teachers to put the laptops to good use so that the nation would achieve better results in the education sector.

Mrs Rosetta Addison Sackey, the Eastern Regional Director of Education, on behalf of the other Directors, commended the Ministry of Education for its quest to promote education in the country.

She said proper mechanisms would be put in place to ensure that the laptops were used to the benefit of the students.

Some of the contents on the rlg brand laptops include self-text quiz for all the subjects, videos of the presidential initiative on distance education and a host of other materials.