We’ve never seen a computer before but we study ICT as a subject- students of Huhunya Presby school bemoans
Students of Huhunya Presby school have said they have never seen nor touched a computer before but they learn it as a subject every day
Joseph Marfo 
Many challenges are confronting authorities and students of Presby Junior High School at Huhunya, a farming community in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The school lacks computers or an ICT lab to help students acquire basic knowledge in computing, students study under dilapidated school building, these among many other challenges.
The development according to teachers and students is affecting academic work and performances.
The students told SN24 News that, teachers of the school have been teaching them ICT as a subject every day but the truth is that, they have never seen nor touched a computer before.
“We’ve never seen nor touched a computer before but we learn it as a subject every day,” the students stated.
Under the Ghana ICT Accelerated Development Policy initiated in 2003, schools are required to use computers as the ultimate learning tool.
The aim of the ICT Unit in Education Programme at the Ministry of Education indicates that students throughout the country are to be trained on how to use the internet to assess and analyze information.
It’s not just the learning of ICT as a subject, but the second dimension which is also very, very key and ultimate is that ICT tools are supposed to be used as tools for learning. So whilst they are also learning ICT as a subject, it is also expected that teachers will integrate technology in the teaching-learning process.
Although many schools have ICT centers, however, the story of Huhunya Presby Junior High School is absolutely different as the students’ study ICT as a subject but have never experience or feel a computer before.
The Assemblymember of the Huhunya electoral area, who doubles as the PTA chairman of the school, Mr. Joseph Tetteh expressed his bizarre sentiments about the bad situation and called on government and all stakeholders to intervene, assist the school, since all letters written to the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly have been turned down.
By: William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Region
