The Ghana Education Service has in a press release indicated that 80% of the 62,000 teacher laptops for senior high school teachers have been delivered across the regions and that the distribution is expected to be completed on 17th December, 2021.
In the release signed by Cassandra Twum Ampofo, head of GES Public Relations Unit, the distribution of the teacher laptops which is in phases will have the Junior High and primary School teachers getting theirs in January 2022 when school reopens
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia launched the One Teacher One Laptop initiative.
During the launch, he handed over 350,000 laptops as part of the government’s pledge to equip Ghana’s teachers with the necessary ICT skills to prepare the next generation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Dr. Bawumia, assisted by the Minister for Education, Hon Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum; the Director General of the Ghana Education Service, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa; and the leadership of Teacher Unions, handed over the first of these laptops, known as the TM1 (Teachers Mate 1), to the school’s 71 teachers at a brief but colorful ceremony on the campus of St Mary’s Senior High School in Accra on
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Meanwhile, Stephen Desu, President of Innovative Teachers, has rejected the distribution of laptop computers to teachers under the ‘one teacher, one laptop’ policy.
According to him, teachers in the country do not want a locally assembled laptop to work with, and that no teacher requested a laptop from the government, but rather “the union itself, that is NAGRAT, CCT alone, they took the decision among themselves to go and ask for the laptops.”
Below is the release
Source: ATLFM NEWS
