The National Executive Director of Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS), Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah has questioned the rationale behind the implementation of Ghana Smart Schools Project.
He has indicated that the project is ill-advised and wasteful as it is skewed to divert resources from addressing fundamental deficiencies within the educational system.
The Ghana Smart Schools Project, launched by President Nana Akufo-Addo, aims at providing Senior High School students with tablets to encourage computer literacy and technological know-how among senior high school students.
Government has promised to provide 1.3 million pre-programmed tablets through the Ghana Smart Schools project to each SHS student across the county.
Mr. Gyatuah, speaking in an interview on Onua FM Etifi Nsem show Saturday, March 30, wondered why the government would prioritize such a program in light of the prevailing challenges faced by many schools across the country.
He has raised questions regarding the logistics and maintenance of these tablets, particularly in the face of infrastructure deficits and lack of internet connectivity in some of the schools.
“We know that these gadgets might come with an already installed programme, but how is it going to connect with other schools with network challenge”.
Moreover, this is a political year so you could see that the policy is not a national policy but a political show off policy, he asserted.
The GNACOPS boss quizzed if the Ministry by the ‘one student one tablet’ initiative is going to abrogate the computerized policy which prohibits students from using electronic gadgets in school.
He likewise expressed disappointment in the government for habitually exempting private schools from educational policies.
