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COVID-19: Government To Provide Distance Education Technology Free For Universities

25-Mar-2020
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Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Education, has announced Government plans to acquire distance education technology and the technical ability and capacity for all Ghanaian universities for free.

He said the COVID-19 outbreak, even though was bad news, should make the provision of the facility faster.

Dr Opoku Prempeh made the disclosure on Tuesday when he took his turn at the Meet-the-Press Series in Accra.

He said before the outbreak of COVID-19, and because of the numbers of free senior high school students coming from the secondary system, the Government, through the National Council for Tertiary Education, had engaged with Open University, United Kingdom (UK).

He said their discussion with Open University UK had gone very well and that they had already made a portal available for students through the Ghanaian universities.

“So, if you go to the University of Ghana, the University of Ghana has a range of courses that they want to use Open University resources that will be available to you.”

Dr Opoku Prempeh said this potential would increase the population of the University’s students by over 30,000 and starting; adding that “the more we get students to get on it, the lesser we will have to pay".

“That technology is available and ready to be deployed and it is one of the arsenals we have in our preparedness for the senior high school students, who are about to enter the university.”

He said the partnership with the Open University UK would make it possible for Ghana to locally host Open University Ghana here to guide and guard all its distance learning education after four years.

Dr Opoku Prempeh said the only problem with distance learning education all over the world was quality and an assurance.

He said Open University UK had the resources to police that very well and the Government wanted all its universities to have it for free.

He said almost all the traditional universities had functional learning systems which might require upscale in order to make the service available to students.

“Almost all the five universities, which are affiliating the 46 colleges of education, have learning management systems they are deploring to affect all the colleges of education.”

Some of the universities with learning management systems include University of Ghana; University of Professional Studies, Accra; University of Health and Allied Sciences; University of Cape Coast; Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration; University of Mines and Technology; University of Education, Winneba; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; University of Energy and Natural Resources and the University for Development Studies.

Dr Opoku Prempeh noted that all those universities had already deplored their online systems.

He said the Education Ministry had written to the Ministry of Finance for funding to roll out the online learning programme.

He said the Education Ministry with the support from the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Information would deploy the online programmes and the traditional social media programmes to the whole country.

“Moving from medium to long term, we have a national digital literacy project that is going to allow a company to come into the country under One District, One Factory (1D1F) and establish a manufacturing base of smart tablets and mobile telephones and laptops..,” he said.

He said this would ensure that every child and every teacher in the nation’s educational system got access to ICT facility both as a subject course and as a tool to ensure better teaching and learning.

He said the Government was going to build a knowledge bank of educational material resources so that everybody in Ghana who wanted to learn would have access to those materials for free.

Source: GNA

 

 
 

 

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