MP calls for postponement of ICT as examinable subject in basic schools

The Member of Parliament for Mfantseman East, Mr George Kuntu-Blankson, has appealed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to extend the time of making Information Communication Technology (ICT) examinable in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) from proposed the 2011 to 2015.

This would enable children in schools in rural areas who did not have access to computers to acquire them and prepare well before the examination.

Mr Kuntu-Blankson said this when donating 45 computers to 42 Junior High Schools, two preparatory schools and a youth fellowship in his constituency at Ekumfi Eyisam near Mankessim.

He said the GES could kill the interest of children in the ICT if they rushed to make it examinable subject when they were not prepared for it.

Mr Kuntu-Blankson said the donation of the computers, which were acquired with his share of the Common Fund, was to promote teaching and learning of ICT.

“Now every JHS in my constituency owns a computer,” he said and urged teachers of the subject and heads of the schools to manage them well to benefit every child.

Mr Kuntu-Blankson appealed to District Assemblies, Parent/Teacher Associations and past students to help the schools to acquire computers to facilitate teaching and learning of the subject.

The Rev Kojo Baiden, the minister in charge of the Ekumfi Eyisam Methodist Church who received the computer on behalf of his Church’s Youth Fellowship, thanked the MP for the donation on behalf of the beneficiaries.

Source: GNA