{"id":87328,"date":"2015-01-31T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=87328"},"modified":"2015-01-31T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T15:47:31","slug":"ugs-distance-education-students-get-android-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=87328","title":{"rendered":"UG&#8217;s Distance Education students to get android tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A\u00a0Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has inaugurated a\u00a0project\u00a0to distribute android \u2018tablets\u2019 to distance education students of the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Mr Ablakwa the project is aimed at easing the pressure on the university for space in lecture halls and other facilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tablet-for-UG-students.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87334\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tablet-for-UG-students.jpg\" alt=\"tablet for UG students\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project which cost $37.5 million is a loan agreement signed between University of Ghana and the Chinese Company, Unisplendour Software Company of Tsinghua University, Beijing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Minister observed\u00a0that the country\u2019s education had become &#8220;a pyramid with 5.4 million pupils at the basic education level, 840,000 students in secondary schools with few spaces available in the universities, polytechnics and colleges,&#8221; hence the need to decentralize the system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tablet-for-UG-students-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87331\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tablet-for-UG-students-2.jpg\" alt=\"tablet for UG students 2\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Ablakwa said only modern technology could offer the enabling environment\u00a0to increase the number of students for university education and still guarantee quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cWe are convinced we can improve quality and work with higher numbers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tablet-for-UG-students-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87332\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tablet-for-UG-students-3.jpg\" alt=\"tablet for UG students 3\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Ablakwa further urged the students to put the facility to good use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has inaugurated a\u00a0project\u00a0to distribute android \u2018tablets\u2019 to distance education students of the University of Ghana. According to Mr Ablakwa the project is aimed at easing the pressure on the university for space in lecture halls and other facilities. 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