Education Minister set to launch Knowledge and Skills Bank portal
The Minister in Charge of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum is set to launch the Ghana Knowledge and Skills Bank (GKSB) portal (https://gksb.gov.gh) to enhance knowledge acquisition and skills development in the country.
In a social media post sighted by Pretertiary.com, the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation of Ghana (MoCD) said the GKSB will be launched on September 17, 2024, at the Accra Digital Centre at 10:00 AM.
The Ghana Knowledge and Skills Bank according to the Digitalisation Ministry will store a wide array of educational materials including content from reputable sources such as Cambridge University Press, Cengage Learning, and many others.
“This portal has been built to serve as a one-stop shop for knowledge acquisition. It will be linked to the existing portals for ease of referencing.
It also includes online materials already developed by the Centre for National Distance Learning and Open Schooling (CENDLOS) and the Ghana Education Service,” the Ministry of Communications and Digitalization said in the post.
The GKSB developed by Npontu Technologies, a leading AI research and development in Ghana is modelled after the Egyptian Knowledge Bank as part of moves by the government to transform the country’s educational system to meet international standards.
The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum in an interview with Accra-based Asaase radio said amid the GKSB Ghana is poised to actively participate in the fourth industrial revolution with the right investment in education.
“We also have the Ghana knowledge and skills bank, something we are about to launch very soon modelled after the Egyptian knowledge bank, it has already been developed
The initiative is funded by the World Bank with textbook and magazines for universities on it, all the textbook and literature books from primary are all on the “Ghana Knowledge and Skills Bank,” the Education Minister stated.
Adutwum added, “What you need is your national ID, you log in, books are made available to you at home school and then on your devices. So our government is looking at creating the entire ecosystem for transformation of education.”