From Ernest Best Anane
E-syllabus for Africa, a San Francisco-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has organised a maths and science competition for 30 selected schools from five circuits of six groups, with five students from each group, in the Kumasi Metropolis. It is part of efforts at improving upon mathematics and science education at the Junior High School (JHS) level.
E-syllabus for Africa can also be located in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, and Dr. Congo, while working with other NGOs to provide digital material and computers to some schools in the country. Mr. Henry Howard, Executive Director of the organisation, explained that the aim is to acquire scholarships for brilliant but needy students who may excel in the competition, to enable them further their education to higher levels.
According to him, the competition would give the students fair grounds to participate for the selection of the best.
He revealed that the organisation, which has branch offices in most of the regions, including Western, Central, Volta, Ashanti and the three Northern, also provides books, reading literacy programmes for schools without a library, and announced that some of the students who benefited from the organisation’s programmes previously are now pursuing their education in most of the various tertiary institutions in the country.
He stated that 52 of be beneficiaries are in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), 24 at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), and two at the University of Developmental Studies (UDS).
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