Anglican Schools to be provided with ICT facilities

Story: Tim Dzamboe, Ho

The general manager of Anglican educational unit, Mr James Mike Abban has announced that all Anglican affiliated schools in the country will be provided with facilities for the study of Information and Communication Technology(ICT).
He said Anglican schools will not sacrifice ICT for frivolity adding that all schools in the district capitals will furnished first as part of the programme.
Mr Abban announced this when he addressed the 37th annual conference of managers and heads of Anglican higher institutions (COMHAI) at Ho last weekend.
The four day conference was on the theme, “ The new educational reform, the role of the Anglican church”.
He said the church will sponsor teacher trainees for its schools saying that it had posed itself strategically to face the challenges of new educations reform.
The general manager said the performance of teachers, students and pupils must be examined so as to avoid the wholesale condemnation of teachers in times of poor performance in schools.
Mr Abban reaffirmed the churches support for schools with the view to producing high class products to serve in various sectors of the economy.
He decried indiscipline in schools as becoming a great concern at all levels of society and said a section of the media was covertly and overtly supporting some acts of indiscipline.
In an address read on his behalf, the Ho Municipal Executive, Mr Mawutor Goh said the education reform programme was dictated by national requirements for the nation to keep pace with global dynamics of development.
He said the government and the church had a collective and crucial role to play to ensure the success of the reforms.
Mr Goh commended the church for establishing three new Senior High Schools but urged it to rehabilitate existing schools adding that the conference should identify hidden challenges and innovations for the reforms to succeed.
For his part the Anglicna Bishop for Ho Diocese, Right Reverend Matthias Medadues-Badohu said Ghana had been overtaken by other African countries in many fields because she had become a nation that sells than manufacture due to the non-adherence to recommendations.
He said for the reforms to succeed teachers must be able to apply the norms of discipline in themselves especially on lateness to school and absenteeism adding that” if teachers at the top do not reform how can they bring about reforms”.
Solidarity messages were read on behalf of the Ghana National Assoicationof Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers(NAGRAT), Conference of District Directors of Education(CODDE) and COMEU.