Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said the government will provide senior high school students with electronic tablets.
Dr. Bawumia said “this game-changing development” is aimed at equipping the students with the relevant materials for their studies.
Speaking at this year’s New Year School at the University of Ghana, Legon on Tuesday, January 17, Dr. Bawumia said the move forms part of the government’s digitization agenda.
He disclosed that these tablets will have textbooks and past exams loaded onto them.
This year, we are on course to provide all senior high school students in Ghana with tablets that are loaded with textbooks for their studies.
That’s a very game-changing development. “We will have past questions preloaded on these tablets that will be distributed,” the Vice President said.
There are already plans to make free internet available in both secondary and tertiary institutions in order to improve teaching and learning.
The government has said it has already awarded the contract for the first batch of Wi-Fi installations to begin in some second cycle and tertiary institutions as part of the project
