Past learners of the Kumasi Academy Senior Large University have commissioned an ultramodern science laboratory to promote STEM education and learning at the school.
Just after a 9-yr journey, the laboratory, outfitted with scientific apparatus and present day IT infrastructure, would provide the around 1,000 college students pursuing general science at the university.
National President of Kumasi Academy Alumni Association, Dr. Kwabena Dapaah-Siakwan, states the edifice seeks to greatly enhance the educational performance of college students and also inspire additional girls to pursue the sciences.
It was a gratifying instant for students of Kumasi Academy SHS to have a really feel of an ultramodern science laboratory.
The facility, compartmentalized into the physics, biology and chemistry laboratories, would manage college students to have palms-on scientific demonstrations.
The edifice also has put in in each laboratory an electronic board with a science library for straightforward and productive teaching and learning of the sciences.
Talking at the commissioning of the lab, Minister of Schooling, Dr. Yaw Adu-Twum, reiterated the government’s initiatives and determination to reform Ghana’s academic sector to serve modern day industrial desires.
“The govt is setting up Accra STEM Academy to teach learners from kindergarten to high university with 21st-century competencies in dilemma solving, creativity, conversation, collaboration, knowledge and electronic literacy, and computing,” he reported.
Dr. Adu-Twum unveiled the governing administration has initiated a one particular-yr pre-engineering plan for non-science students hoping to pursue a career in engineering.
He states the initiative would progress Ghana’s industrialization agenda.
“Pre-engineering programme is a match-changer that will open doorways to many non-science secondary faculty graduates, primarily visual arts graduates who have drive and posses the potential and innovative mind to be educated as the ground breaking and resourceful engineers to generate industrialization in Ghana.
“The programme is presently currently being piloted by the College of Mines and Technologies, Tarkwa and Pentecost University, Accra. This ultramodern science laboratory will enjoy a strategic function to help government’s eyesight of flipping our science: humanities ratio from present 40:60 to 60:40,” he stated.
Named as the Akunini Science Laboratory, the a single-storey setting up was thoroughly funded by some aged college students of the university.
The edifice worth GHC9.6 million has a robotics facility to hold pupils abreast with modern technological progress.
Nationwide President of the Kumasi Academy Alumni Association, Dr Kwabena Dapaah-Siakwan, suggests the facility is predicted to make improvements to the overall performance of college students at both WASSCE and the nationwide science and maths opposition.
“This was not created for our alma mater for entertaining or just to make noise that we have the greatest science lab. The earlier students want to see a huge improvement in the WASSCE effects of our learners in the sciences in particular and also be expecting enhanced efficiency in the NSMQ since we have delivered every thing to them,” he explained.