Minister for Education, Yaw Osei Adutwum, has hailed former Major of Accra Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije for his Millennium School initiative.
The project saw the construction of very good school infrastructure across the capital, which the Minister described as a very fantastic job.
Accra, he said, today happen to have of the best school infrastructure in a number of places because of the Millennium School projects and lamented same cannot be said of the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi.
“You look at Kumasi schools and you will weep in some places.”
“In fact, In Accra, the former Mayor Okoe Vanderpuije, he did a fantastic job with the Millennium Schools,” he said.
Addressing a group for NGOs and CSOs in education who paid him a visit on Friday 21st January, 2022, the Education Minister disclosed the Ministry is determined to create an education eco-system that will enable agencies to do what the Ghana Education Service (GES) is doing, to have TVET Service at schools.
According to him, at the high school level, the goal as a Ministry is to create that environment so that school children can do well.
Speaking on the STEM schools, Mr. Adutwum stated majority of Ghanaians are excited about the construction and will lead to parents sending their children back to public schools.
He disclosed that the Arab Development Bank, Saudi Arabia and a number of counties are ready to help construct one STEM school in every region.
“Funding for Kumasi is ready and others are coming. The whole idea is that we can rehabilitate our collapsing schools in the rural areas but also we also have to take care of the urban areas.”
“Urban schools are not being done the way the rural schools have been done so we want to do both where we are able to look at the school under trees syndrome, rehabilitate collapsing schools and also build urban schools like the Millennium schools built by Okoe Vanderpuije so that both parts of our country will see development,” he said.
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