{"id":1142,"date":"2012-12-31T07:36:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T07:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/challenges-in-science-technology-and-innovation-2\/"},"modified":"2012-12-31T07:36:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T07:36:25","slug":"challenges-in-science-technology-and-innovation-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/challenges-in-science-technology-and-innovation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges in Science, Technology and Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following are the challenges facing the country in the area of science, technology and innovation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited financial resources from both public and private sectors to invest in the sector<\/li>\n<li>Limited human resources available for Science Technology and Innovation Development. This mainly due to fewer scientists coming out of the academic institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Many students at \u2018O\u2019 and \u2018A\u2019 level\u00a0 avoid science and prefer to do very well art subjects. There\u00a0 is a need to change the teaching of science subjects in our institutions of learning<\/li>\n<li>There are few engineers, doctors, technicians and artisans available on the labour market.<\/li>\n<li>The current government funding modality of the medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) which is based on the need for immediate outputs and returns to the economy.\u00a0 STI requires a different funding arrangement that entails sustained long term financing commitments in order to realise its long-term contribution to the GDP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are the challenges facing the country in the area of science, technology and innovation: Limited financial resources from both public and private sectors to invest in the sector Limited human resources available for Science Technology and Innovation Development. This mainly due to fewer scientists coming out of the academic institutions. Many students at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The following are the challenges facing the country in the area of science, technology and innovation: Limited financial resources from both public and private sectors to invest in the sector Limited human resources available for Science Technology and Innovation Development. This mainly due to fewer scientists coming out of the academic institutions. Many students at&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}