Accra, July 21, GNA – Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN), has initiated an education project to support schools in the Northern Region of the country to improve the learning experience of students.
This was announced at the launch of the Academy for Education Development, AED Project in Tamale, a collaboration between MTN and the Centre for Education Development and Management, CEDEM, a Ghanaian Non-Governmental Organization, whose mission is to help Ghanaian children gain access to high quality education.
A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday said a total of 25 schools would be touched by this project based on outcomes of the pilot in five selected schools, with a total expected positive impact on over 10,000 pupils.
A senior official of the MTN Ghana Foundation, Ms. Mawuena Dumor said, “The expected outcomes of this exciting partnership with AED, the Ghana Education Service, Traditional Authorities, Teachers and Parents are tremendous.
“It will sustain an all important enhanced learning environment for pupils in deprived schools with an end goal to improve teaching and learning in the classroom.”
She said this involved equipping the schools with the requisite resources and personnel to help upgrade the standard of tuition and applying recent innovations in teaching methodologies.
Ms. Dumor also mentioned in-service training for all teachers and head teachers, provision of books and other reading materials, interactive learning tools and other equipment for the creation of new learning approaches in teachers' resource centers.
She said “We are very proud to have been invited to be part of this exciting partnership”.
By the end of the three-year project valued at USD $70,000, the results will include marked percentage increases in literacy and numeracy among pupils, entrenched locally relevant teaching tools and materials available with easily transferred skills to be passed on to incoming teaching professionals and results proven assessments showing exceptional improvement in numeracy and communications skills.
It is also expected that the MTN/AED program the project areas will also own upgraded schools with non-formally educated parents as active participants through regular engagements to be organized during the period of the project to also include Traditional Leaders, Parent Teacher Associations, head teacher, teachers and district education officers.
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