Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister, said on Tuesday that various Education Colleges in the country will soon see major infrastructural growth to resolve the deficits.
This will increase college attendance while still facilitating successful teaching and learning.
Mad Owusu-Banahene made the remarks when visiting the St Ambrose College of Education in Dormaa-Akwamu and the Berekum College of Education in the city on an unannounced tour.
The aim of her visit, according to her, was to familiarize herself with obstacles to academic work, as well as to assess preparation and measures put in place by colleges to avoid the spread of COVID-19 as students take their exams.
Mad Owusu-Banahene clarified that the government was working out the details and that contracts for the building of physical educational facilities in different colleges of education around the country will be awarded shortly.
Mad Owusu-Banahene delivered COVID-19 security materials to the colleges with the support of Mad Doris Asoma, the Bono Regional Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme.
These have nasal masks, facial shields, and alcohol-based hand sanitizers, and the colleges are responsible for ensuring that all professors, tutors, and non-teaching personnel wear their nose masks on campus.
Students and tutors at St Ambrose College of Education were being vaccinated against COVID-19, and the regional minister advised the students to ignore baseless assumptions and misconceptions about the vaccine.
The minister was informed by Mr Prince Yeboah Marfo, the principal of Berekum College of Education, that a shortage of infrastructure growth was impacting student enrollment.
He said that, despite the College’s efforts to find ways to admit students, government intervention was desperately needed to place the college to grow enrollment.
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SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
