Kwahu Pepease (E/R), Feb. 11, GNA - The Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) is providing a three million-dollar education= al infrastructure, teaching and learning materials for basic schools in the Kwahu North and Fanteakwa districts under the Integrated Quality Educatio= n Project. The objective of the project is to improve teaching and learning in=

basic schools in the two districts.

The Project Manager of KOICA, Mr Cha Seungman, said this at a five-d= ay training of trainers' workshop at Kwahu Pepease in the use of syllabuses for basic schools for 44 basic school teachers and district education officer= s drawn from the two districts.

Under the project, which is being implemented by World Vision International Ghana, 22 basic school classroom blocks would be constructe= d in the two districts. Furniture would be provided for the classrooms as well as building o= f four teachers' quarters and provision of teaching and learning materials for all the 513 basic schools in the two districts. The project would also support the training of Untrained Teachers in=

Diploma in Basic Education (UTDBE) programme while the government would a= lso provide 1,200 bicycles for pupils and teachers in the two districts as pa= rt of its counterpart funding of the project.

The local project manager of KOICA, Mrs Justine Adjimah Mawuena, sai= d said the government took a significant interest in the project and urged the participants to return to their various districts to implement what they had learnt. The Fanteakwa District Director of Education, Mr Kwadwo Osei Owusu,=

said as a pilot project, they should ensure its successful implementation=

for it to be extended to other parts of the country.