Kumasi, Aug 11, GNA – Mr Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, has appealed to Polytechnic Governing Councils to be proactive in the discharge of their duties.
This will ensure that Polytechnics remained focused on providing technical expertise required for the industrial development of the country.
Mr Baah Wiredu, who was inaugurating the reconstituted Governing Council of the Kumasi Polytechnic at the weekend, expressed regret that Polytechnics were loosing their focus.
The new Council is under the chairmanship of Mr Daniel Mireku Owiredu, Managing Director of Ashanti Goldfields Limited, Obuasi. He said the Polytechnics needed to take a closer look at the courses they offered in order to impart technical knowledge to students to provide middle-level technical know-how for the country. He said the government was working hard to find solutions to some of the problems facing the Polytechnics and urged the Councils to initiate measures to solve some of them.
Mr Owiredu said the Council would forge good working relationships with all stakeholders to achieve the objectives of the Polytechnic. He said the Council would get industries to accept students for attachment during vacation.
Dr Lord Asamoah, Principal of the Polytechnic, commended the former Board for their initiatives that had brought about massive infrastructure development on the campus.
Source: GhanaWeb
