Communication Minister Ursula Owusu Ekufful has indicated that the ban on mobile phones in Senior High Schools should be reviewed.
According to her, allowing students access to their phones in school has greater advantages than disadvantages.
The Member of Parliament to Ablekuma West noted that the unapproved sites should be regulated to prevent the situation where students have easy access to them thereby curbing corruption and encouraging regulation.
“We should look at the ban of devices in schools but we do want the children to focus on their lessons and not be distracted. So there are ways of fire walling these devices so that it is only educational contents or browsing on approved sites which would be allowed on those devices in schools.
We are still having those conversations with the GES and the Ministry of Education to see how that will be possible.”
She is confident that by the end of 2019 the ban will be lifted so as to make educational contents more accessible and affordable to students.
“We are also working with device manufacturers to assemble some of these devices locally… but it is a plan and a project that we think its visible so that if we can assemble the devices locally we can make it more affordable and accessible to all Ghanaians so that we can have smart devices. It is meant for schools they will be preloaded with educational contents only or access to approve sites only.”
This follows the debate on whether or not the ban on mobile phones should be lifted or not as some individuals and groups and politicians have advocated for the lifting of the ban.
Source: The Ghanaian Observer
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Very good.
primitive teachers and educationists with no research findings to back the use of mobile phones and performance by students. Just issuing bans on the backdrop of moral and discipline. ursula well spoken
This is a bad precedent Madam. Cant we control our children in modern world? We are gradually loosing control of our children through some of these modern day practices. Do not involve yourself into such matters. Politicians do not open their mouths as wide as that.
ENYE WOA! WASTE OF PUBLIC FUNDS!
stop being ***barred word*** is this the most important thing your on your mind? think about setting up state of the art computer labs in our schools our rural folks have never seen a computer and u r thinking about allowing students to use mobile phones in schools