Former Pro-VC of UCC and Executive Director of the Dora Edu-Buandoh Foundation (DEB), Prof. Dora Edu-Buandoh has called on parents and teachers to encourage female learners to pursue STEM-related courses.
She expressed worry over the low number of female students reading science-related courses and thus encouraged young females to focus on science-related courses as this will help them to become female educators which is essentially needed in the fast-growing world economy.
“Because if you’re not training them from secondary school, then you won’t have females who will be science educators when they go to their universities” she continued.
To her, females should be trained from the senior high school level to help bridge the gap between females who read science-related courses and males who do so at the tertiary level.
To her, the few graduating with STEM are STEM educators and must consciously make efforts to try and bridge the gap between boys and girls who are studying science in the classroom.
Prof. Dora Edu-Buandoh spoke in an exclusive interview with ATLFMNEWS at the fifteenth congregation ceremony of the OLA College of Education which was held for 401 first-batch B.Ed graduates.
Prof. Edu-Buandoh also charged parents to support their female wards with material resources and emotional needs that will aid in their academic upbringing.
She encouraged them to set aside huge parts of their resources to train and educate their girl child, to enable them help make society better in the future.
Meanwhile, a graduate who received 5 awards for her massive contribution to OLA College, Ms Joana Eghan expressed that hard work, selflessness, passion and devotion were her solace during her study at college and the reason for the recognition in sweeping 5 awards.
She expressed appreciation to the OLA College for the holistic training they churn out to students and further called on interested persons to consider schooling there for their training.
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Source: Comfort Sweety Hayford/ATLFMNEWS
