Ghana’s government has announced plans to distribute 100,000 laptops to students in a move aimed at boosting teaching of ICT in the country.
Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Dr. Mustapha Ahmed disclosed the plan saying: “Enhancing learning in ICT is part of government policy to build youths capacities to the fullest, and promote more learning and technology transfer.”
The distribution will benefit those second cycle and tertiary students, reported AllAfrica.com.
The deputy minister further stated that with the increased need to build students’ capacity for local entrepreneurship and the job market, the government placed high premium on ICT learning, now an examinable subject.
According to the minister, the government had contracted Rlg, a telecommunications company, to supply the laptops under the BGA for second cycle and tertiary students.
So far, over 1,000 laptops have been distributed to the basic and senior high schools for learning of ICT under the Ministry of Education.
He said this critical intervention was part of government’s policy to make available to students computers to help in the learning of ICT.
The Government is in the process of making financial arrangements to increase the distribution to reach more students, he noted.
The minister said this at the second phase of laptop distribution in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional capital, during which 40 tertiary students received laptops under the Better Ghana Agenda (BGA) programme.
