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Prof. Mills:
I will say that affordable is the kind of housing which any ordinary person
will be able to pay for completely over a 4 year period, using his incomes
and other circumstances.
Question:
The last 4 questions we asked dealt with the environment, housing planning;
all these questions you dealt with require massive application of
scientific and technological know-how. At the moment there is a perception
that science and technology is not receiving the sort of attention that
it requires in this country.
Prof. Mills:
Well Atta-Mills and the NDC will first and foremost re-establish the Ministry
of Science and Technology. Two, we are going to ensure that at the
JSS-SSS levels the emphasis is on science. We will encourage science
learning. We are going to revive the Science Resource Centres that we
set up in the secondary schools and which have been allowed to go into
disuse.
At the university level, we are going to give scholarships to students who
study science. Teachers of science are going to be given special incentives.
We are going to devote 2% of the GETFUND to research for science and
we are also going to have 2 science and technology theme parks for the
nation - one sited on the Aburi Mountain, the other one in Cape Coast and
link the various universities to these science parks.
We therefore want to ensure that science takes its pride of place and that
the emphasis is on science. We will encourage research and draw a close
relationship between the scientist and business so that they will know the
direction science should take our economy. I think that it’s an integrated
packet and I think that at the end of the day we will see science flourish.
We are not going to sweep science under the carpet. We are going to give
it a pride of place.
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