Education Minister, Dr. Osei Yaw Adutwum has urged the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to collaborate with tertiary institutions to reassess the current tertiary education system in the country.
He made this suggestion at a conference on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education in Ghana in Accra.
He disclosed that, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment ( NaCCA) has already designed new high school curricula that is in line with university courses, thus, cited that some pre-tertiary students are already undergoing training in computer sciences and other IT-related courses.
“You go to Accra High and you see they are doing engineering science. We have new STEM schools that are functioning from Abomusu to Kasempe. In all these places, children are inventing and flying drones at Afia Kobi Ampem”, he said.
He emphasized that, the ministry is building new schools in other to equip new transformation in the education sector.
“We are in the fourth industrial revolution. We are changing facilities and building more schools. Equipping existing and new schools and therefore, at the pre-tertiary level things are changing. At the tertiary level rapid transformation is necessary in order to take advantage of the unique talents that Ghanaian youth possess”, he added.
He suggested that, tertiary students must try and adapt to these new learning skills.
“Our tertiary institutions have to now begin to look at how they accommodate the learning views of these new students who are using their minds and using their hands in designing robots and doing so many unique things”, he stated.