Civil organisation, Center for Public Opinion and Awareness (CenPOA) has noted with great concern the recent announcement by the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia that the government of Ghana will be procuring laptops for SHS students to replace textbooks.
We believe that this initiative, although backed by good intentions, is not well thought through, unnecessary and a complete waste of public resources.
We laud the government’s previous initiative of distributing laptops to all teachers in the country, since we are in a technological age and teachers may need them for research and preparation of lessons.
However, we completely disagree with the government on its reasons for the provision of laptops to students and fail to fathom how this can improve learning in senior high schools.
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