The Director General for the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Prof. Ahmed Abdulai Jinapor, has announced that the government was ready to facilitate the teaching and learning of German Language in the country.
This, he explained could be done by creating an enabling environment and facilitating the establishment of the right institutions with the right resources for many Ghanaians to develop an interest in the teaching of the language as he recount the numerous benefits of understanding the German language.
Prof. Jinapor announced this when he hosted the Deputy Head of Mission of the German Embassy, Madam Sivine Jansen, Accra.
The delegation’s visit to the GTEC was aimed at deepening the already existing ties between the Embassy and GTEC and also discussing moves to speed up the acquisition of accreditation to start a Bachelor of Art programme in the German Language at the University of Education of Winneba.
Foreign language benefits
The Director General mentioned some of the benefits of learning the German language as helping many Ghanaian students to go and study in the country, helping many people travel to do business with ease in Germany, promote the development of tourism between the two nations among others.
Prof. Jinapor however urged the Embassy to speed up effort towards the attainment of the right infrastructure, personnel with the requisite teaching skills as well as the appropriate teaching and learning resources that would promote the teaching and learning of the language in the country.
He praised the German Government for its efforts towards poverty reduction and national development as a whole.
Optimistic
The Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy, Madam Sivine Jansen, in her address was upbeat that everything possible was being done to ensure that many Ghanaians have the opportunity of studying the German Language in the country.
She mentioned of plans to extend the teaching and learning of the German language in all Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions in the country to create an opportunity for them to have the chance of travel to Germany for further studies or work in various industries and vice versa.
The Deputy Head of Mission stated that every possible was being done to meet all the requirements for the accreditation process for the running of the bachelor course at Winneba.
Background
The University of Education Winneba has since 2005 been teaching German language to students pursuing French as their first language and German as a second language.
It is based on this that the German Embassy is working very hard to ensure that some Ghanaian students also have the opportunity to study German for a bachelor’s degree.