The Vice Chancellor of the Koforidua Technical University in the Eastern Region, Professor David Kofi Assumang has suggested to the government to consider adding Environmental Education to the compulsory core subjects in the education sector.
According to him, the environmental education that talks about one’s well-being is not taught in school making it very worrying.
Prof. Kofi Assumang adds, if we want to achieve all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a country then Environmental Education must be made compulsory single subject from Nursery to Tertiary level and with that when the kids grow up it would help them to protect the country’s natural resources.
He told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during the official launching of Koforidua Technical University’s Centre for Sustainable Development on the theme “Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.”
Prof. David Kofi Assumang further stated, should Environmental Education be a compulsory subject in the various levels of the education system in Ghana, students would have known how important it is to keep the communities clean and also to protect the natural resources the country has.
In addition, the Dean of Faculty of Built and Natural Environment of Koforidua Technical University, Doctor Prince Boateng disclosed that, none of the Technical Universities in Ghana have Centre of Sustainable Development, however it is the first of it kind they have launched such program which will enable the University for writing articles or letters for possible publication.
“This published letters wouldn’t be like the ordinary ones but can be use to address the community problems as well as reducing poverty; hence it will help the school in many ways,” he noted.
Dr. Prince Boateng stated that, most students in SHS does not know why they study different things meanwhile once they go to the Technical University they are being taught on how they can apply it to solve problems.
To add with, the Chairperson for Environment, Science and Technical Committee of Parliament who doubles as the MP for Oforikrom in the Ashanti Region, Dr. Emmanuel Marfo added that once Ghana is developing, the citizens must ensure that the natural environment contains the needed development.
Stating that, we must again seek to it that, the natural resources won’t be destroyed by the activities of man because the unborn generation will face its consequences.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnews.
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