The Immediate Past Dean of the faculty of law at the University of Cape Coast, Professor Philip Ebow Bondzie Simpson has proposed that Arts should be recognized in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Educational Programme in Ghana.
Speaking at the Dean’s Awards ceremony of the Faculty of Arts at UCC, he revealed that the field of Arts has been neglected in education suggesting the science and technology dominate the world.
According to him, Ghana must develop the STEM Education Programme to include Arts in to make learning complete.
He emphasized that Arts play a pivotal role in development along with Science and Technology acknowledging that celebrities today largely come from the arts with sports being a close competitor.
He therefore suggested that Arts be recognized as an integral part of STEM education in Ghana.
“We appreciate the full dimensions of the role of the different disciplines, as well as the place of quantitative and quantitative dimensions to development and growth. We will appreciate that the arts have a special place and a pride of place for our development. So, we distinguish between the arts and the sciences, and under the liberal arts will have the traditional disciplines,” he continued.
Prof. Bondzie Simpson further highlighted the significance of the study of Arts expressing that subjects like classics, philosophy, religion and history were the core of higher education for millennia.
He argued that “The professional related disciplines came into work and got constricted into university business just about a century and a half ago, but the world has had universities for millennia.”
Professor Philip Ebow Bondzie Simpson advocated for government and policymakers to embrace the Arts and critically analyze its impact on other disciplines in the university today.
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