The Cuban government has pledged to support the nation’s transformation agenda through education.
The Cuban Ambassador to Ghana, Mrs Anette Chao Garcia, who announced this said the Cuban government was ready to support Ghana in the transformation of its economy through education development.
She explained that her office would soon engage the Ghana government through the Education Ministry to discuss the various ways it could help the country so it would decide the specific education support it could offer the nation to transform its economy.
Mrs Anette Chao Garcia, announced this when she paid a courtesy call on the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw OseiAdutwum, yesterday in Accra.
“The people of Cuba are very happy with the state of development in Ghana so I am here to find means of contributing towards this noble achievement by the government of Ghana,” she said.
Ms Garcia mentioned some of the areas for support as the special education sector as well as the Science, Technical, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) agenda which would help fast-track the transformation of the economy.
The Cuban Ambassador was full of praise to Dr Adutwum for agreeing to ‘come home’ to help with the development of the nation’s education and called on all Ghanaians abroad to emulate the good example by Dr Adutwum.
DrAdutwum, on his part said, the Nana AddoDankwaAkufo-Addoled government was poised in turning the fortunes of the nation around through education to boost the development of the needed human capital to push the nation forward.
He explained that a lot of support was being offered by the government towards improving the teaching and learning of STEM at all levels of education in the country to provide the right manpower to lead the nation’s development.
Dr Adutwum said the nation cannot be left out again in the fast development around the globe.
He lauded the Arab Development Bank for accepting to construct 15 STEM Academies across the country to complement the government effort at boosting the teaching and learning of STEM-related courses across the country.
Dr Adutwum said everything possible was being done by the government to create a level playing field for all students to pursue courses of interest to them so they could contribute towards the development of the country and the rest of the world.
