GHANA’S FIRST VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL TO BEGIN NEXT ACADEMIC YEAR – Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Adutwum

Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has firmly stated that Ghana will introduce a virtual high school at the beginning of the upcoming academic year.

He stated that the Virtual Senior High School(SHS) will initially enroll 10,000 students nationwide.

He announced this at the unveiling of the Ghana Knowledge and Skills Bank Portal on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, by the Ministry of Communications in collaboration with the Education Ministry.

Dr Yaw Adutwum clarified that the upcoming virtual High School is a component of the education sector reforms that the NPP, led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, is planning for the next academic year.

He described how the Virtual High School will operate on the Skills and Knowledge Bank Portal, guiding students through their studies using content from the approved curriculum on the platform.

The Minister revealed that Ghana is partnering with the Open University in the UK to create virtual labs for students at the Ghana Virtual High School.

“This also going to allow us to do the first-ever Ghana Virtual High School. It seeks to enroll about 10,000 students and the students are going to learn virtually. We are also with the support of the UK Open University building virtual labs.

So you can dissect a frog virtually. So you can’t say I went to a school without the 21st science lab; I couldn’t do science. You do your science virtually, and that is the new Ghana. In fact, some of the virtual labs that were developed were used in the UK but were developed by Ghanaian teachers.” he disclosed.

So at the end of the day, the digitalisation of education offers our nation a new opportunity. There is going to be a paradigm shift of major proportions and I think when we embrace it well and begin to look at what is possible, we can create a better education system. A system that we never thought we would have.

10 years ago we never thought there would be this, Ghana Knowledge Bank, second to what we’ve seen in Egypt and I think with the Ai Infusion, I think we are even getting ahead and we are going to create the best learning portal,” he said.

 

 

NKONKONSA.com