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Prez Mahama announces scholarship package for “Poly” lecturers in next NDC administration
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Prez Mahama announces scholarship package for “Poly” lecturers in next NDC administration
20 October 2012
President John Mahama has announced that his government will over the next four years, offer scholarships to polytechnic lecturers to upgrade themselves as they prepare to transform polytechnics into technical universities.
The President said this, will be a major step towards solving academic progression difficulties polytechnics in the country keep facing.
{sidebar id=10 align=right}President John Mahama was addressing students of the Holy Child Training School and their colleagues from the Takoradi Polytechnic on Friday, when he visited the Poly campus to inspect ongoing projects and to also share his government’s vision on education with them, as part of his tour of the Western Region.
“Over the next four years, we are going to work with the Polytechnics to upgrade the faculties by providing scholarship to lectures in various departments to go and upgrade their academic skills, and come back and also expand infrastructure and equipment, in order that we can upgrade those institutions to fully fledged technical universities,” he told the students.
President Mahama repeated his calls for Ghanaians to reject NPP’s promise of free senior high school education saying that the framers of the 1992 constitution envisioned that policy and therefore no one must steal that vision and claim it as their own.
He told the students his government was committed to improving the facilities at the basic and secondary levels in order to provide quality and accessible education to every child of school going age.
Fixing accommodation challenge
President Mahama also told them about his government’s plan to solving accommodation challenges for teachers across the country. He said they will embark on a housing project on all campuses to accommodate about twenty thousand teachers nationwide.
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No commentsNPP will build 350 SHS – Dr Bawumia
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NPP will build 350 SHS – Dr Bawumia
20 October 2012
{sidebar id=10 align=right}The New Patriotic Party says it plans to build 350 new senior high schools across the country to address the infrastructure deficit in the country’s educational sector.
The party has come under heavy criticisms over its free SHS policy especially from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) who say the few senior high schools available cannot accommodate the thousands of junior high schools students expected to enter the SHS.
They also argue the policy will compromise quality education if nothing is done about increasing accessibility.
But addressing supporters of the NPP in Kperisi in the Wa Central constituency of the Upper West region, the party’s presidential running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia promised that adequate infrastructure will be put in place to address the challenge.
“Under Nana Akufo-Addo we are going to build 350 new senior secondary schools in Ghana, and so we will create the access and we will improve the quality. The argument that you cannot do it is the same argument they used, then we were bringing in the National Health Insurance Scheme...we will bring about the free secondary school education for all our children.”
Dr. Bawumia also indicated that agriculture in the Northern and the two Upper regions will receive a major boost under the NPP to make the region the food basket of West Africa.
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Akufo-Addo offers free healthcare and free education for all children under 18
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Akufo-Addo offers free healthcare and free education for all children under 18
{sidebar id=12 align=right}The 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says in addition to every child under the age of 18 gaining access to free quality education, his administration will offer all children free access to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), when the NPP is voted into office in the December polls.
In ensuring that every child has free access to the NHIS, Nana Addo explained that, parents will no longer have to be subscribers to the NHIS for their children to benefit, adding that “millions more of children will be covered by free healthcare.”
The NPP Presidential Candidate made this known on Wednesday, when he delivered a speech on the topic “Saving our Health Service, Keeping our People Healthy”, at the Sunyani Nurses Training College, at which he comprehensively outlined his health policy.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP believes that “free quality education up to secondary level and affordable healthcare are essential for the healthy, educated workforce we need to transform the economy, create wealth and enhance the welfare and wellbeing of every Ghanaian.”
Nana Addo explained that the wealth of the nation depends on the health of its people, and to “transform Ghana, we have to be healthy, and our government has a duty to ensure that the most vulnerable have access to quality healthcare.”
Mindful, however, of NDC propaganda and distortions, particularly on his free SHS policy, and the anticipated NDC propaganda on his free NHIS for all children policy, Nana Akufo-Addo maintained that “the good people of this country know that this is something we should do, we can do, and we will do.”
The NPP flagbearer recalled how NDC MPs, including now President John Mahama, walked out of parliament and boycotted its proceedings when the law to bring the NHIS into fruition was being laid on the floor of the House, because of their opposition to its passage.
“But, when the programme was successful, they claimed falsely it was their idea and that they had a pilot scheme at Nkoranza. They don’t have the vision to deliver to the people of Ghana, so they try to rewrite history,” Nana Addo said.
Nana Addo continued, “The NDC now admits that the NHIS is preferable to the cash and carry system they were operating, but if you look at their performance managing the system, you have to doubt their sincerity. We must save our health system, and keep our people healthy.”
The NDC’s record in managing the NHIS, according to Nana Addo, has been abysmal and one can conclude that “either they do not really believe in a national health insurance system, and their advocacy of a one-time premium reinforces this perception; or they lack the competence to administer it.”
“We must save the NHIS now from the incompetent hands of the NDC,” he charged.
Nana Addo stated that the NPP has a record of care and achievement, as shown by the initiatives to expand health service coverage put in place by the Kufuor-led NPP administration.
“The next NPP government, God willing, will introduce comprehensive measures to tackle the fundamental problem of too many Ghanaians dying because they can’t get proper care. I want to see ambulances carrying the sick to the hospital for treatment and not turned into hearses.
“We will continue the policy started under President Kufuor to establish an efficient ambulance service well-coordinated with emergency care in the hospitals and nationwide to be sure when patients get to you, you can still help them,” he said.
Touching briefly on his free SHS policy, Nana Addo expressed disappointment about the hypocrisy of the NDC, who on one hand state that his free SHS policy is not feasible and yet, on another hand, NDC activists are going around in rural communities with President Mahama’s picture and saying “he is the person promising free SHS.”
“This is typical NDC duplicity. It appears that their capacity for deceit and double dealing is limitless,” Nana Addo said.
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Jay Ghartey to build schools in Winneba and Cape Coast
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Renowned music artiste, Kweku Gyasi Ghartey, well-known in showbiz as Jay Ghartey, has reaffirmed his commitment to education with a promise to set up more charity schools across the country.
In the immediate future, the US-born Ghanaian music sensation has announced his intention to build two such schools in Winneba and Cape Coast – which he describes as his ancestral hometowns.
{sidebar id=10 align=right}The My Lady hit-maker announced this in Accra shortly after inspecting his new charity school at Nima, last week.
The school, constructed by Jay and his brother, Joe Ghartey, as a project under their GH Brothers Youth Foundation, currently caters for over 150 pupils from the elementary to the adult level.
The pupils, many of whom hope to return to the proper school system, have now taken to the opportunity provided by the school to build their future.
Jay Ghartey hinted in a statement that, he would set up two additional schools in Winneba and Cape Coast, all in the Central Region.
“These are my ancestral towns and as the saying goes, ‘charity begins at home,’ my next planned schools are going there,” he announced, adding that he intends to build more of such school across the country.
Touching on his visit to the Nima charity school, Jay Ghartey shared a profound delight upon meeting and interacting with the pupils, who promised him to take their studies seriously in order to realise their aspirations.
He said: “I had a great visit with the children. This has always been a dream of me and my brother to have schools that help the youth of Ghana.
“There are so many geniuses who need to be encouraged and sometimes encouragement and an academic environment is all a child needs to blossom into a responsible citizen," he added.
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Regional SRCs endorse NPP’s free SHS
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17 October 2012
Regional SRCs endorse NPP’s free SHS
The Regional Students Representative Councils (RSRCs) has endorsed opposition NPP’s promise of free secondary education if it assumed the reigns of power next year.
The Regional Student Representative Councils, an amalgamation of all SRCs in Senior High Schools, Vocational and Technical institutions across the country said as a council, it was concerned with the ranging argument of free SHS promised by the NPP.
The issue of education has taken centre-stage ahead of the December elections with all political parties trying to convince the electorate with the NPP promising free SHS.
{sidebar id=10 align=right}Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, the Eastern Regional Coordinator and spokesperson of the council, Micheal Assan noted that after 55 years as a country the argument of secondary education should be about implementation not its feasibility.
He bellowed that the country must now move away from the questioning of its essence and feasibility and focus on seeking further details from the leaders on how they intend to do it.
The council stressed that as a component of NUGS, it fully endorses the policy of free education, as well as providing infrastructure, equipping and retaining of teachers in the educational sector as espoused by the presidential candidates of NPP, PPP and CPP.
The council encouraged all presidential candidates to see the need for free SHS education NOW other than within the shortest possible time.
The students' body reckoned that the free education will be expensive but cheaper when juxtaposed to the number of armed robbery and child prostitution cases that would be visited on the nation if the situation remains this way.
They quibbled that if Ghana loses 3 billion due to lack of proper record keeping, spends 290 million annually on sanitation and over 600 million on preventable judgement debts, why can’t it afford free SHS?
The council posited that any serious political party which wants power should know that SHS command potential over 700,000 students voters so it must prioritize the need for free SHS.
From: Asempa FM/Twum-Barima