Building of Colleges hostel blocks starts next month – MoE
The latest good news for teacher training colleges is that the building of hostel blocks starts next month.
The construction of 300 story 300-bed hostel blocks for 45 government accredited Colleges of Education across the country will commence in June this year, the spokesman for the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng has announced.
In a statement copied to EducationWeb, the Public Relations Officer said the move forms part of the government education reforms to expand facilities to accommodate the increased number of students in the Colleges of Education.
“As part of the government’s Education Reforms, all public Colleges of Education (CoE) in the country have been converted/upgraded into 4-year Bachelor of Education degree-awarding institutions
This has necessitated the need to expand facilities to accommodate the increased number of students and improve teaching and learning as well,” the Education Ministry (MoE) communications Director said on Monday.”
The building of the facilities, he said is kind courtesy of the Akufo-Addo led government through the Ministry of Education and its agencies Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund)
Yaw Opoku Mensah, the deputy spokesman for the Ministry Monday told EducationWeb that the construction of the 3 story 300-bed hostel capacity blocks for Colleges of Education will commence next month this academic year.
“Next month construction works will start in our colleges of education for the expansion of hostel facilities for our students. The projects will take 15 months to complete and are expected to be handed over in August 2023,” he said.
According to him, the buildings will cost the government Ghc485 million with local contractors expected to execute the projects. The projects Yaw indicated are expected to generate over 2500 direct and indirect jobs for the economy.
The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum commenting on the construction of the Colleges of Education hostel blocks early this year at a press briefing said the move follows a decision to move teacher education to four years.
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“We made teacher education four years, therefore there is a need to add more facilities, a 400-bed hostel with excellent furniture,” the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe Constituency said at the Sunday press briefing in January.
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