The Ministry of Education is working out plans to ensure that the training of students in the Sciences moves to 60 per cent by 2030, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, a Deputy Minister of Education has said.
Already, the Ministry is to begin a one-year pre-engineering course at the University of Mines, Tarkwa and the Pentecost University to leverage the Public-Private partnership and prepare the minds of students towards taking up Science courses.
Rev Ntim Fordjour announced this during the 2020/2021 graduation programme and 2021/2022 matriculation programmes for the Nursing and Medical students of the Family Health University College in Accra on Thursday.
He said government was also working out with stakeholders to introduce students to a one-year pre-medical programme to encourage most of them to train as medical personnel to narrow the doctor-patient ratio in the country.
The Deputy Minister explained that although Ghana was ranked 14th in South Saharan Africa with over 6000 patients to a doctor, there was the need to adopt pragmatic measures that could increase the number of doctors in the system.
He commended the staff and management of the Family Health University College (FHUC) for complementing government in the training of medical personnel and gave the assurance that government would continue to create an enabling environment for better collaborations.
He called on the students to let the investments their parents made count by exhibiting professionalism in their fields of work.
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