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STEM schools will recruit staff with skills – Education Minister

The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum says the new STEM schools to be operationalised next academic year will recruit staff with relevant skills and experience for effective implementation of STEM programmes.

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Addressing the nation on STEM education on Monday, Dr Adutwum said the school will also engage the services of specialists such as occupational therapists, counsellors, psychologists, special education officers among others.

He said training of personnel for STEM education has commenced in earnest by some leading universities in the country including the University of Cape Coast (UCC), KNUST, UNER, University of Mines and Technology (UMaT).

“The National Teaching Council (NTC) framework will ensure teachers are professionally trained and properly licensed to deliver STEM education to young Ghanaian children,” the Minister in charge of Education stated at the event.

Mr Yaw Adutwum added that “our STEM programme will also address regional, rural-urban, and socioeconomic disparities. Disparities exist between the north and southern parts of the country in terms of educational outcomes.”

The STEM curriculum the Minister said will start in lower secondary school and remove the bottleneck of boxing students into a major at an early age and provide them with the opportunity to receive a well-rounded education.

“These pathways will include, environmental, science, Aeronautics, Aerospace and Aviation; Engineering and Computer science; Manufacturing (Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Business), Agricultural science and creative arts.”

The Minister for Education also disclosed the central government this year will recruit headmasters/headmistresses for the STEM schools that are expected to start full operation when the next academic year begins in the year 2022.

“But what we are going to do is to frontload the Management aspect of it, begin the recruitment of STEM Headmasters so by August every school will have a headmaster,” Bosomtwe Member of Parliament stated in an interview.

The headmasters’, Dr Osei Adutwum said will ensure all the needed facilities including teaching materials are available in the school before effective academic activities commence in January 2022 in the next academic year.

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