John Atta Mills Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Education==== There was also an increase in the capitation grants (government subsidies towards public education) under Mills. The government also introduced a programme to provide free school uniforms to deprived communities while providing over 100,000 [[laptops]] or [[Laptop|notebooks]] to school children to facilitate the learning process in a highly technological world. An initiative to provide free exercise books started under Mills. More than 23 million books were distributed. His government also expanded the school feeding programme to include 230 more schools.<ref name="ghanaweb1"/> Government paid the full tuition fees for all teachers pursuing further studies through distance learning. A sustained program involving the Ministry of Education, the GETFUND, and resources allocated by the various [[District Assemblies]] have begun to ensure the elimination of schools under trees and provide all schools in the country with decent classroom infrastructure. Out of the 4,320 schools under trees, almost 1,700 schools under trees were eliminated across the country. The Mills administration also started a program to re-equip science resource centres in all districts of the country to enhance the teaching and learning of science.<ref name="ghanaweb1"/> Two new specialized public universities were established during his tenure: the [[University of Health and Allied Sciences]] in the [[Volta Region]] and the [[University of Energy and Natural Resources]] in the [[Brong-Ahafo Region]].<ref>{{cite web |date=18 May 2012 |title=University of Health And Allied Sciences To Takeoff in September |url=http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/general-news/13025-university-of-health-and-allied-sciences-to-takeoff-in-september/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623105638/http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/general-news/13025-university-of-health-and-allied-sciences-to-takeoff-in-september |archive-date=23 June 2012 |access-date=27 September 2012 |publisher=Ghana government ghana}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=11 November 2011 |title=University of Energy, Natural Resources Ready For Admissions |url=http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/regional-news/brong-ahafo/8943-university-of-energy-and-natural-resources-ready-for-admissions/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111033214/http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/regional-news/brong-ahafo/8943-university-of-energy-and-natural-resources-ready-for-admissions/ |archive-date=11 January 2016 |access-date=27 September 2012 |publisher=Ghana Government Ghana}}</ref> As president, Mills established a working relationship between the Masters in Development Practice program (MDP) at the [[University of Winnipeg]], Canada and the [[University for Development Studies]] [[Ghana]], leading to a joint initiative on the study of development practice for Indigenous and traditional societies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://uwinnipeg.ca/index/uw-news-action/story.851/title.the-passing-of-john-atta-mills-president-of-ghana |title=The Passing of John Atta-Mills President of Ghana |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111033212/http://uwinnipeg.ca/index/uw-news-action/story.851/title.the-passing-of-john-atta-mills-president-of-ghana |archive-date=11 January 2016|access-date=3 December 2014 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page