Call for comprehensive policy to promote the teaching and learning of science

04-11-13   

Prof Haruna Yakubu

The Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS) , Professor Haruna Yakubu has underlined the urgent need for a comprehensive government policy aimed at promoting the teaching and learning in the first and second cycle institutions. In a speech read for him at the 21^st Matriculation ceremony of UDS in Navrongo, Prof Yakubu said the time was rife for an increase in the number of students offering science based subjects at the undergraduate and graduate level, therefore adopting the policy will be a useful step towards a national increase in the quality and number of science students. By this, the rapid growth and development of the country will be ensured. He bemoaned the dwindling percentage of science students in relation to those pursuing the humanities, arts and business, and called for concerted effort to address the challenge. Prof Yakubu stressed that looking at the nation’s current level of development and given the need for scientific research and technology as a propellant of development, it was highly crucial for emphasis to be placed on the training of scientists in the country’s universities. This, he observed, was vital since there had been great scientific revolution in countries that invested in the teaching and learning of science at the tertiary level.

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