The government is committed to ensuring that the needed resources are provided to support education delivery in the country, Henry Martey Newman, chief of Staff has reiterated
He said government will leave no stone unturned in its commitment to provide up to date infrastructural facilities that would exude the right environment for quality teaching and learning in schools.
Mr. Newman stated this at the speech and Prize Giving Day of the Yilo Krobo Senior High School on Saturday, on the theme, “Ensuring Quality education for Ghanaian children- the challenge of less endowed Schools.”
Mr Newman said “the theme for the occasion reflects government’s determination to ensure that all Ghanaian children are provided with high quality free basic education whilst adequately resourcing second cycle schools to meet the needs of a growing and diversified Ghanaian economy.”
He said “government is much aware of many challenges facing the education sector which include lack of adequate teaching and learning materials, poor and inadequate infrastructural facilities, and the unwillingness of teachers to take up appointments in less endowed communities.”
He said that government was aware of such challenges and was poised to address each one of them.”
He said as part of the measures to provide quality education, a new body to be known as the National Inspectorate Board will be established to enforce standards evaluate all first and second cycle schools.
Mr. Newman said Government had tasked the Ministry of Education to furnish and equip science and computer laboratories in the less endowed Senior High Schools so as to enhance the teaching and learning of Science and Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
This,he said, was in an effort to bring some leverage “between the so-called first class schools and the less-endowed senior high schools”.
The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Baba Jamal, said through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), a greater number of second cycle schools had been provided with the needed infrastructure in the form of classroom blocks, dormitories and science laboratories for effective teaching and learning.
He said in line with government policy to equip students in Senior High School with skills in ICT, an ICT centre had been established at the school through public-private collaboration with Planning Technology International, a non-governmental organisation based in U.S.A.
Mr Jamal said a borehole had also been drilled to curb the perennial water shortage facing the school, adding that “the water shortage would be over when the rehabilitation works on the Kpong headworks is executed.”
He said the 700 road leading to the school would be rehabilitated adding that “the government is doing everything possible to source funding to complete the administration block, the assembly hall and other abandoned projects in the school.”
Mr. M.L Bawuah, headmaster of the school, said there had been a tremendous change in academic results compared to the past years, adding that “the school achieved a lot of successes in the previous years when we presented our students for WASSCE”
He said the school was only emphasizing on academic excellence but also activities that helped students to have balanced development in order to live meaningful lives after school.
He said government will leave no stone unturned in its commitment to provide up to date infrastructural facilities that would exude the right environment for quality teaching and learning in schools.
Mr. Newman stated this at the speech and Prize Giving Day of the Yilo Krobo Senior High School on Saturday, on the theme, “Ensuring Quality education for Ghanaian children- the challenge of less endowed Schools.”
Mr Newman said “the theme for the occasion reflects government’s determination to ensure that all Ghanaian children are provided with high quality free basic education whilst adequately resourcing second cycle schools to meet the needs of a growing and diversified Ghanaian economy.”
He said “government is much aware of many challenges facing the education sector which include lack of adequate teaching and learning materials, poor and inadequate infrastructural facilities, and the unwillingness of teachers to take up appointments in less endowed communities.”
He said that government was aware of such challenges and was poised to address each one of them.”
He said as part of the measures to provide quality education, a new body to be known as the National Inspectorate Board will be established to enforce standards evaluate all first and second cycle schools.
Mr. Newman said Government had tasked the Ministry of Education to furnish and equip science and computer laboratories in the less endowed Senior High Schools so as to enhance the teaching and learning of Science and Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
This,he said, was in an effort to bring some leverage “between the so-called first class schools and the less-endowed senior high schools”.
The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Baba Jamal, said through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), a greater number of second cycle schools had been provided with the needed infrastructure in the form of classroom blocks, dormitories and science laboratories for effective teaching and learning.
He said in line with government policy to equip students in Senior High School with skills in ICT, an ICT centre had been established at the school through public-private collaboration with Planning Technology International, a non-governmental organisation based in U.S.A.
Mr Jamal said a borehole had also been drilled to curb the perennial water shortage facing the school, adding that “the water shortage would be over when the rehabilitation works on the Kpong headworks is executed.”
He said the 700 road leading to the school would be rehabilitated adding that “the government is doing everything possible to source funding to complete the administration block, the assembly hall and other abandoned projects in the school.”
Mr. M.L Bawuah, headmaster of the school, said there had been a tremendous change in academic results compared to the past years, adding that “the school achieved a lot of successes in the previous years when we presented our students for WASSCE”
He said the school was only emphasizing on academic excellence but also activities that helped students to have balanced development in order to live meaningful lives after school.
