As part of efforts to improve the study of science in schools, the Ghana Education Service has trained about 750 science teachers and laboratory technicians across the country.

The training seeks to build the capacities of participants on the effective and efficient use of modern laboratory equipment procured by the Ministry of Education for science resource centers.

The teachers and technicians were drawn from 174 Senior High Schools across the country.

Beneficiary schools were zoned into cluster of regions with the last batch being the Ashanti and Western North Regions.

Currently, the training is taking place at the Opoku Ware Senior High School (OWASS) in Kumasi.

A total of 242 participants are expected to train other colleagues who could not be part of the exercise.

It is part of efforts by the Ministry of Education to move away from the abstract teaching of science subjects to pure practicals where students have a feel of the equipment.

The Ministry of Education has procured all the relevant apparatus for physics, chemistry and biology laboratories to ensure practical demonstration by students. 

Most of the participants who spoke to Joynews were excited about the training, as it would change the face of science education in their schools.

Despite teaching for many years, the participants say this is their first time seeing most of the equipment.

“I personally did chemistry at the university, I didn’t even see some of these equipment and my physic teachers can attest to it that these equipment can help us. When you go to my field Chemistry, there are some experiments that we talk about them in the theory because we didn’t have them,” one of the teachers said.

They applauded the Ministry for the provision of the equipment.