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Education think tank Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) is calling on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to retrieve government-issued tablets from Senior High School (SHS) students and equip them with proper safety controls. This follows revelations by Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu that some students were using the devices to access pornography instead of academic material.
Eduwatch’s Project Management Specialist, Kofi Nkansah Sarkodie, emphasized the need for GES to act swiftly to secure the tablets and install UNESCO-approved safety features. “Retrieval can be done at the school level, and the necessary safeguards must be deployed. The devices are intended for academic purposes only, to support students’ learning, and not for any other activity,” Sarkodie said.
The tablets, part of the Free Senior High School program, were meant to enhance digital education and provide students with access to educational content. However, Minister Iddrisu noted that around 980,000 of the 1.3 million tablets distributed have not been fully customized, allowing students to misuse them.
