Endow children with ICT Skills-Education Minister

Accra, Ghana -Professor dominic Fobih, Minister of Education on Thursday noted need for school children to be endowed with skills especially in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order for them to march up with their contemporaries on the other side of the globe.
He said with the current trend of modernity, quality education to produce professionals and scholars for the country's development required all necessary infrastructure to ensure holistic development.
Prof Fobih said this when he commisssioned a GHC 48, 500 computer science laboratory for the Kwashieman Cluster of Shchools to enhance the ICT cacpabilities of the pupils.
The project was the brain-child of Mr Kwamena Bartels, Member of Parliament, Ablekuma North Constitutency and would serve the ICT need of the 28 schools within the cluster.
He said government was committed to strengthen the education sector through various reforms and initiatives, "The every child to a lap top programme is now on pilot basis and would be extended to cover the entire country in no time".
Mr Kwamena Bartels, MP for the area said the project demonstrated his commitment to ensure the development of education in the constitutency.The MP also provided 5,000 pieces of school uniforms at a cost of GHC 28, 350 to needy but brilliant students.
He mentioned some of the development projects undertaken in the constitutency as electrifictaion, health and sanitation, construction and rehabilitation of roads and drainage and human resource development.
Mr Bartels noted that to make education accessible, dual desk have been provided for the school while some selected ones were benefiting from the school feeding programme.