The Member of Parliament for Ada Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah has admonished students to choose Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, And Mathematics (STEAM) education over their love for English reading programs to make their lives better after school completion.
The MP who doubles as the Minority Chief Whip stated that the English language we have been speaking fluently over the past years as a country brought no significant achievements but rather continues making the fool out of the people.
According to her, those who boast of being the elite and educated and supposed to know better are the very people who drink sachet water in cars and indiscriminately dump the waste on the streets.
Comfort Cudjoe Ghansah made these known to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during the inaugural of the maiden edition of Ada College of Education’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) Fair where all Basic Schools and Senior High Schools in the constituency joined hands and exhibited some crafted items of theirs.
She then described the English language as bogus and noted it does not contribute anything positive to the country, the reason the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin said they were going to speak the local dialect in the House to help them express themselves well for the transformation of the country.
The Lawmaker was very much delighted with the items displayed by the pupils together with both the SHS students and the teacher trainees of the Ada College of Education.
“I will encourage parents to allow their wards especially the young girls among them to pursue STEAM education in school to enable them to use their minds and hands to create job opportunities for themselves and become CEOs because that is far better than speaking good English and becoming unemployed at the long run,” she said.
Professor Prince Boateng, the Principal of Ada College of Education on his part explained that the program was not necessarily meant for tertiary students because Europeans and Asians train their young ones right from scratch on STEAM.
This, he buttresses and emphasises the program to guide learners to upgrade themselves at the tertiary levels being it a certificate or diploma course instead of the tertiary programmes, hence the inclusion of the pupils and SHS students.
“In doing so, we will get plumbers, fashion designers, carpenters, and masons among other professionals, and this will help the country achieve its industrialization agenda,” he stressed.
Professor Boateng added that his College is among the eight Colleges of Education in Ghana that offer Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and organizing such programs for the schools in the area will enable students especially the young ones to be oriented on the career path they seek to pursue in the near future.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnewsonline.com.
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