The government is expected to spend GH¢32 million on the first Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Academy in Accra.
The Academy, which will be constructed within the next twenty-four (24) months, will be completed from kindergarten to high school, with an expected population of some two thousand (2,000) students and will equip learners from kindergarten to senior high school with 21st-century skills in problem-solving, creativity, communication, collaboration, data literacy, digital literacy, and computer science.
As part of the Government’s commitment to the advancement of STEM education in the country, President Akufo-Addo stated that his administration has commenced the development of twenty (20) STEM Centres and ten (10) model STEM Senior High schools across the country, which is at various stages of completion.
He said the Accra STEM Academy will have several state-of-the-art facilities, including a four-story classroom block, science laboratories, a sickbay, administrative area, staff common room, library, washrooms, canteen, and a one thousand, five hundred (1,500) capacity multi-purpose hall.
President explained that Government attaches importance to the teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at all levels of the nation’s educational system, in recognition of the centrality of STEM capability in the employment of science and technology towards Ghana’s nation’s development.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kofi Atakora
