Ten out of the 16 regions have fully been supplied with laptops under the government’s One Teacher-One Laptop programme.
This means, almost 300,000 teachers, representing all category of teachers including those in senior high schools (SHS), junior high schools (JHS), primary, kindergarten, teachers on study leave as well as qualified non-teaching staff of the Ghana Education Service have received their laptops nationwide, according to latest data, released by K.A. Technologies, local manufacturers of the laptops.
According to the data, less than one percent are expected to receive through a nationwide mop up exercise currently ongoing and expected to end in August 2024.
For the remaining six regions, even though some categories of beneficiaries have received their consignments, a mop up exercise is currently underway to ensure no qualified teacher is denied the laptop.
For instance, whereas some teaching staff and qualified GES staff have received laptops in some regions, others, mainly teachers on-leave were yet to generate a Collection Code to claim their computers from Regional and District ICT Co-ordinators.
The Ghana Education Service, working with the teacher unions, has stepped up efforts to ensure nationwide distribution of the laptops is completed at the end of August 2024.
Over the last few days, distribution of the laptops has been ongoing in Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Western North, Eastern, Volta, and Oti regions where more teachers took delivery of their TM1 Laptops.
Last month, more teachers in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions became new recipients of the laptops.
Teaching and non-teaching staff who have not yet received their laptops can generate a collection code by dialling 790555# and contacting their ICT coordinators for assistance.
The One Teacher, One Laptop programme, launched in September 2021, aims to improve teaching and learning outcomes in pre-tertiary educational institutions nationwide.
Under the programme, every public school teacher from kindergarten to senior high school is to receive a laptop to aid in lesson preparation, research, and learning.
The government covers 70 per cent of the laptop cost, with teachers contributing the remaining 30 per cent through their unions.
These laptops also enable teachers to access digital online training through National Teaching Council-approved modules, ensuring that teaching aligns with National Teachers Standards across the country.
The use of new technological tools such as Laptops in teaching and learning not only bring innovation to academic centres, but also speed up the transfer of information, increase student interest, and allow processes to be automated.
Ghana is seeking to leverage on the ICT aided teaching and learning to be an active participant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Source: Graphiconline
