A letter from the Education Minister to students
Dear students,
Over the past five weeks, your academic work has been disrupted because of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in our country. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took the bold and necessary decision to close down our educational institutions to protect you and the nation from this deadly disease which has claimed many lives across the world.
I am concerned about your continuous learning, particularly as we near the end of the academic year. I can imagine the uncertainties about reopening dates and examination timetables weighing on your mind and perhaps affecting your preparations, especially for those of you in your final year.
I assure you that the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Service and the Universities are in close and regular contact with the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health. The reopening dates of our various educational institutions shall depend on the expert advice of our health professionals managing the pandemic to ensure that we have a safe back-to-school process.
In the meantime, we have created various platforms for pre-tertiary education on television and online to enable you continue with structured and self-guided learning activities. For TV, we are currently broadcasting content for SHS core subjects on the Ghana Learning TV. It is available on free to air TV as well as on DStv channel 315, GOtv channel 150 and StarTimes channel 312. Very soon, we will be broadcasting content for KG to JHS as well.
Additionally, we are producing learning content for radio to be broadcast across the country.
For online, we have resources available for SHS students on iCampus Ghana which can be accessed via icampusgh.com. In the near future, content for KG to JHS pupils and students will also be made available on this platform. For tertiary students, various universities are deploying Learning Management Systems to help students continue their education remotely. We are aware of the challenges students are facing with the cost of data and have agreed with telecommunications networks (Vodafone
and MTN) to zero-rate educational content online on platforms.
For the time being, I encourage you to stay at home and adhere to all safety regulations during these difficult times. I also encourage you to draw up personal daily timetables to engage in learning through the platforms we have provided. Pick up new healthy hobbies, read widely (free e-books available on the Ghana Library Authority app) and exchange learning ideas with your peers.
I wish you well and look forward to the resumption of school and learning in the face-to-face environment when it is safe to do so.
Sgd.
Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh
Minister for Education
We hope things work out in our favour.
Gud
We really appreciate your effort
The ideal is good but not every students will be able to join the online learning due to not have the basic material (television and cell phone) ……..
FG should at list allowed we the final years to go back to school na cause this is just a set back Ahba.
Good
What for those sitting for waec, but people are really confused because of this exams while because of deadly pendamic. Anyway we need our exams thanks.
We want to go back to school
FG should allow the final year students to return back to school
Dat x coo4 dis decision dat has making 2 us ,n it will encourage us Lean harder
What about exam whenever we resume can we have a two weak before starting exam
I urges FG to look into this issue of e-learning because not all the students that has the facilities to access the internet, I know it will be free of charge in time of data charges but, what of those in a rural areas? Those that don’t has television in their house nko? This e-learning is not a good ideas at all, I suggests they should resume normal school activities with compulsory preventive measures such as facemask, social distancing, regular hand washing, hand sanitising & no shaking hand with each others.
I urges FG to look into this issue of e-learning because not all the students that has the facilities to access the internet, I know it will be free of charge in time of data charges but, what of those in a rural areas? Those that don’t has television in their house nko? This e-learning is not a good ideas at all, I suggests they should resume normal school activities with compulsory preventive measures such as facemask, social distancing, regular hand washing, hand sanitising & no shaking hand with each others.
Thank you Mr president we really appreciate your effort concerning to our education pls sir with due respect we need a strong measure of protection because if you said we should stay at home for how long can we do this or how long do we know when this deadly pandemic virus we go pls this cannot help the situation we beg your indulgence to let student resume back to school and provide a strong protection for student so that we won’t fall into victim of this pandemic thank you sir.
That’s good, my prayer is that God should see us through and prevent us from covid19
Ok thank to the Ministry of Education and the GES for their immense help
All will be well by Gods grace