Brief Profile
The school was started on 9th August 1909 as a pure Technical School providing a 3-year course in Woodwork and Metalwork. It was then called Accra Technical School. It was founded in response to the growing demand for technical education at that time and its purpose therefore was to train artisans to man the essential service of the Gold Coast Transport and Communication, Public Works Department and Electrical Supply Commission. It was transferred to Takoradi in 1939 and later sent to the Elmina Castle in 1940, because of the Second World War. This was to give way to the Royal Airforce to use the school. It was however, closed down in 1941. The school was reopened in 1947 in Takoradi and at its present site. In 1953, the school became Government Secondary Technical School.
