Education Think Thank Blasts Bawumia Over SHS Students Laptop Initiative

Education Think Thank 

Blasts Bawumia Over SHS 

The Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Alhaji Mahamud Bawumia had announced the government's intention to phase out textbooks in various Senior High Schools to replace them with laptops to enhance the digitization agenda and facilitate effective teaching and learning. 

His assertion has cause mix reactions as some sections of Ghanaians welcomes the decisions while others expressed doubts about its implementation and success. 

The Chief Executive Director of Educate Africa Institute, an education think tank in Ghana, Mr. William Boadi has said that the policy is a misplaced priority.

Speaking in an exclusive interview on High Radio monitored by Soireenews.com,Mr Boadi stated that the provision of textbooks had not even been successfully achieved not to talk of replacing it with laptops.

He indicated that the quality of the Free Senior High School promised by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akofu-Addo has not been achieved and so it is important to fix the loopholes in the free SHS before issues of digitization are tackled.

Mr. Boadi stressed that challenges of infrastructure and others surrounding the Free Senior High School policy must first be looked at before the implementation of other policies to augment the Free SHS. 

He mentioned  that the decision to phase out textbooks in our senior High schools is a good one but problems associated with the free Senior High School policy implementation must first be considered.

Mr. Boadi urged the government and the Ministry of Education to consider Private schools in the country in their policy implementations because students in private schools are also citizens of Ghana and so they must also benefit from the government educational policies.