A unit of the 1.3 million tablets set to be distributed to students in public Senior High Schools will cost the state US$250 approximately 3,308 cedis, Minister of Education Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has revealed.
Speaking in an interview on JoyNews today, the minister indicated that the distribution of the devices will be done in 3 phases, with the first phase set to kick-start soon.
The first phase will cover 32 high schools across the 16 regions, he said.
“The deployment is such that it is phases – it’ll be in 3 phases. The phase which is hitting regions and schools in the coming week is going to 32 schools in the 16 regions. Once it gets to the school, there’s a dashboard that informs us that the tablets are here,” he stated.
“The whole idea is to ensure that you do a phase approach to deployment and don’t get the system overwhelmed and once you get the first 32 schools done, within a week or two weeks thereafter, the rest which is phase 2 also start moving to the schools”.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on March 25, 2024 launched the Ghana Smart Schools Project under which 1.3 million tablets will be distributed to SHSs students dubbed 1 student 1 tablet.
The project will also see the construction of 100 schools in selected towns in each of the 16 regions.
Already, 450,000 tablets have been procured for onward distribution, Dr. Adutwum disclosed.
He further indicated that teachers are being trained on how to handle the devices with some equipped to act as coordinators for the 1 student 1 tablet initiative at the school level.
“The teachers are being trained. In fact, some have been trained. In the 32 schools, they have all been trained and the good news is that now we have ICT coordinators at high schools. They are at the local level, they are the focal point of the whole distribution and they are the ones who facilitate the training of teachers and provide just in time training for teachers in the classroom”.
