‘Government to secure funds for construction of 20 technical schools’
The government has secured funding from the Saudi Arabian Government for the construction of 20 technical arts schools in all the regions of the country.
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The Minister of State in Charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah announced this at a durbar of the chiefs and people of Agona Duakwa held to climax their annual Akwambo Festival.
The minister said each region would get two of the 20 technical schools with modern equipment, adding that the establishment of the technical institutions would commence before the end of 2017.
Prof. Yankah said one of the technical schools would be established at Agona Duakwa in the Agona East District in the Central Region.
Training
The minister said the technical schools would offer training to students in carpentry, masonry, electricals, information and communications technology among others.
Prof. Yankah added that it was the duty of all stakeholders to help provide useful skills training to the youth to help halt migration to towns and cities.
He said plans had been laid out for the rehabilitation of the first free national boys’ school established by the Chief of Agona Duakwa, Nana Kojo Amoakwa, which had been converted into a junior high school (JHS).
The minister also said after the completion, the ADA JHS would be named after the first Duakwa chief, a great visionary who died in the 60s.
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Rehabilitation
The Agona East District Chief Executive (DEC), Mr Dennis Armah-Frempong said the assembly had made budgetary allocation in the 2018 composite budget to construct and rehabilitate dilapidated basic school structures.
He said the assembly had selected cocoa and palm oil for the one-district, one-factory programme and urged farmers in the area to invest in those cash crops.
The DCE said thousands of bags of fertilisers and varieties of maize seeds had been supplied to the farmers at subsidised prices under the Planting for Food and Jobs policy.
He called on the farmers to invest in Planting for Investment initiative which is the additional programme under the one-district, one-factory policy.