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German Ambassador calls on MESS
Minister
Accra, Nov 23. Ghanadot/GNA – Dr Marius Haas, German
Ambassador to Ghana has said his country is ready to make
available to Ghanaians numerous educational opportunities as
part of their efforts to enhance academic relationship
between the two countries.
This, he said, will help improve the level of education in
the country to promote socio-economic growth.
Dr Haas said this when he paid a courtesy call on Professor
Dominic Fobih on Friday in Accra.
Dr. Haas said there were a lot of opportunities in the areas
of science, technology and vocational skills training of
which Ghanaian students could derive enormous benefits from,
hence the decision to establish the German Academic Exchange
Services (DAAD) to offer such services to Ghanaians.
He said his government is keen on developing and
strengthening academic and scientific relationship with
Ghana and called on the ministry to liaise with DAAD to
facilitate the process.
Dr Haas expressed the hope that the programme would also
enhance Ghana-Germany relationship, which has been in
existence for the past 50 years.
Prof. Fobih said the ministry acknowledges the contributions
of science, technical and vocational education in national
development and had laid much emphasis on these areas in the
new educational reforms.
He said the nation would require a lot of technical
assistance and directions from Germany, which has excelled
in the areas of science, technical and vocational education.
Prof. Fobih therefore, called on the German government to
provide Ghana with grants to build more technical and
vocational institutions, adding; “Ghana’s education has been
academic base for too long and it is time to shift to other
areas.”
He said the grants will also help the nation to advance
teacher training institutions which have now been upgraded
to tertiary level and must be given improvements in academic
programme development and staff training to meet the
requirements of a tertiary institution.
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