Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has disclosed a significant strategy in the offing to transform Ghana’s fortunes through the education system.
He is leveraging some technological inventions by students of Afua Kobi Apem Girls Senior High School to establish 16 aerospace & Aviation Academies across the country.
The students, who are members of the school’s engineering club have invented a 2.5 meter autonomous watercraft that can fly into the air and other crafts that can travel on water to detect drowned dead bodies.
These innovations mark the starting point for Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum to transform the engineering club into 16 Aerospace and Aviation centres in the country.
“What begun as a club, has become an inspiration to many young ladies across the country. And we are going to transition from being an engineering club to an aerospace and aviation academy. We are creating about 16 of them across the country. Every region is going to have one at minimum. So there will be about 20 aerospace and aviation academies,” the minister explained.
According to the minister, Ghana will see a phenomenon from the education ministry that will attract foreigners to acquire certain skills in Ghana.
“To begin to look at how best we can develop the aerospace & aviation industry or man made aircraft. We got an interest expressed by the Minister for defence. We are going to be working with the Ghana airforce, Zipline has also expressed interest,”
“We are working with DuVal High School (DHS), United states, We have looked at the aviation program and its something that we will be able to build on. We are going to begin something that will bring students from West Africa to come to High School here in Ghana. To begin to look at how best we can develop the aerospace & aviation industry or man made aircraft. We got an interest expressed by the Minister for defence. We are going to be working with the Ghana airforce, Zipline has also expressed interest,” Mr. Osei Adutwum explained to the media on Monday August 14, 2023.
He assured Ghanaians that innovation is pivotal to the transformation of Africa.
Source: The Independent Ghana | Amanda Cartey