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An Electronic School Search Engine, �EasySchoolFind�, has been launched in Accra by the Digital Education Group (DEG) to help improve the standard of education in Ghana. The search engine, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DEG, George Sackey, disclosed at the launch last Friday, was designed to serve two purposes within the educational sector, which was �to give parents the chance to access schools of their choice for their wards, and also offer the schools the platform to promote their brand.� The platform, Mr. Sackey said, was awesomely packaged, with a focus on providing easy, convenient, effective and useful electronic school search engine for parents, educators and students. Navigating the search engine, he added, is very easy, with the most basic technological skills and was well designed with outstanding and colourful layouts to make the search enjoyable and refreshing. The search engine, the facilitators said, was made in such a way that it could be accessed on smartphones, iphones and ipads. It was �carefully designed out of good feedback, and a rigorous development and testing process to satisfy our parents, schools, as well as other educational stakeholders,� said Mr. Sackey. �Such a unique platform would ultimately augment efforts of the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education in improving the standard of education in Ghana.� The Brand Manager of EasySchoolFind, Priscilla Adom Tawiah, said the search engine was meant to mitigate the difficulties parents and students go through in finding themselves schools of their choice. After much research and consultations, they were certain that �Ghana needed such a technological platform to relieve parents and students of the stress associated with schools searches, and ultimately, to improve the standard of education in our dear nation,� said Ms Tawiah. In order to ensure a very robust system, the platform has gone through rigorous testing she pronounced, adding that it would offer schools and educational stakeholders the advantage of reaching their target market at the click of a button. A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, called for the efficient inculcation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in public schools across the country. There was an urgent need to ensure better outcomes from public schools through the effective deployment of ICT, he pointed out, stressing that �ICT is the gateway to quality education today.�