Former Education Minister Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang has said each one of the E-blocks built during the tenure of Mr John Mahama’s presidency can build four average schools, adding that if improving the quality of education was all about building classrooms, then the Mahama administration would have counted a lot of rooms.

Speaking in an interview with Kwabena Bobie Ansah on Accra100.5FM’s Citizen Show on Saturday, 13 June 2020, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast said it is imperative that governments take the education of the future leaders of the country very seriously.

As far as the free senior high school education is concerned, she said: “The Constitution itself enjoins progressively free education”, adding: “It’s very clear there”.

“So, you ask yourself: what strategies am I bringing on board to ensure that it works”.

“It wasn’t for nothing that we built the Community Day Schools. It wasn’t for nothing that we didn’t build them like the average public schools in this country – the nine-unit classroom, the headmaster’s office and everything else left out. No”, she pointed out.

“Each E-block”, she said, “can build four of the average basic schools. Oh yes! Because the classrooms alone were 24 with four science labs. A lot of the basic schools don’t have four science labs. Go to one and take inventory of what is there. You have your assembly hall indoors, you have your library, you have your computer lab, you have four science labs, you have the headmaster’s office, you have an office for staff and then also, very importantly, office for the subject heads”.

“So, for example, if I teach English with four staff and we want to meet to set questions or take stock of teaching activities during the mid-terms, we must not sit under trees as I have been seeing all around. They must have an office. We created that for them”, she noted.

“So, today, if we are to count rooms, then we would’ve counted a lot. But this is not a joke. This is a very serious matter because you’re looking at the future of the country”, she added.