MULTICHOICE GHANA FURNISHES SCHOOLS (PAGE 11)

MULTICHOICE Ghana, operators of DStv, has established resource centres furnished with DStv hardware, televisions and VCR recorders in 20 senior high schools (SHS) across the country.
The initiative is aimed at providing innovative educational resources to enhance teaching and learning in the beneficiary schools.
The schools are the Ada SHS and Ningo Senior High Technical School, Greater Accra Region; Nifa SHS and Aburi Presbyterian Senior High Technical School, Eastern Region; Mfantsiman Girls SHS and the Enyan Denkyira Senior High Technical School, Central Region.
Others are the Notre Dame SHS and Bongo High School, Upper East Region; Queen of Peace SHS and Ola SHS, Volta Region; Simms SHS and Akumadan SHS, Ashanti Region; Acherensua SHS and Sacred Heart SHS, Brong Ahafo Region, and the Walewale SHS and Damango SHS, Northern Region.
The rest are the Wa Senior High and Technical School and Queen of Peace SHS, Upper West Region; St. Augustine’s Senior High and Technical School and Nsein SHS, Western Region.
The Public Relations Executive of MultiChoice Ghana, Ms Anne Sackey, disclosed this during a visit to find out how students of the Nifa SHS and the Aburi Presbyterian Senior High and Technical School, the two beneficiary schools in the Eastern Region, were utilising the facilities to improve their academic performance.
Ms Sackey said the establishment of the MultiChoice Resource Centres formed part of the company’s community development strategy aimed at leveraging its resources and expertise to the development of communities within which it operated.
She expressed the satisfaction of her outfit at providing the schools with equipment, as well as with access to the DStv Education Bouquet, which, she said, combined sounds and imagery of television to support teaching and learning.
“The findings of a monitoring and evaluation report conducted in 2008 revealed that 86 per cent of Ghanaian schools equipped with MultiChoice Resource Centres believe that the DStv Education Bouquet provides appropriate content to enhance teaching and learning process,” she disclosed.
The public relations executive added that “not only has the DStv Education Bouquet improved students’ vocabulary due to news and other educative channels that are watched regularly, but the use of video images has also attracted the attention of students, since pictures help them to form a better understanding of issues”.