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THE opening of the new Government Technical School at Takoradi introduces a further development of this type of education in the Gold Coast. Increased demand for technical instruction necessitated the removal of the school from Accra, where the accommodation proved to be inadequate. Moreover, the new site is more favourably placed in relation to the industrialized area of the Gold Coast. The new Technical School occupies a prominent site overlooking the sea and Takoradi Harbour, and the more important buildings include a long single-story workshop with blacksmith's shop at the rear, a three-story administration block containing classrooms, laboratories, drawing offices, assembly hall and dining-room and a dormitory block capable of housing one hundred students. The workshop is in two sections, one for practical work in mechanical engineering and the other for practical woodworking. Both sections are fitted with modern electrically driven machinery such as lathes, power drills, shapers, etc., in addition to the usual benches for manual work.
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New Government Technical School at Takoradi. Nature 145, 545 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145545a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145545a0