Students urged to improve on their education.April 9

Story: Tim Dzamboe, Kpedze

The president of the Evangelical Presbyterian University College, Mr Walter Blege has urged students in the catchment area of the institution to take advantage of its establishment to acquire higher knowledge in life.
He said the new university is a spontaneous tradition of the church as a leader in the provision of education to the majority of people in the Volta Region and other parts of the country and that it was a cherished dream to have built on its track record as service provider in the field of education.
Mr Blege was addressing the 46th speech and prize giving day of the Kpedze Senior High School on the theme, “ the Challenges of the New Educational Reforms: The Way Forward” at Kpedze in the Ho Municipality last weekend.
He said the Volta Region was known as the human resource basket of the nation and that students from the region occupy majority of places at tertiary institutions in the country but it was it was a wonder that the region itself had no university.
“You now have a university right at your doorstep”, he declared.
In an address, the Ho Municipal director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Ms Rosemond Keteku said the day’s celebration will mark the rejuvenation of the fortunes of the school.
She said the major challenges facing to all stakeholders in the educational sector include infrastructural facilities such as additional classrooms blocks, accommodation for both students and staff and more teaching and learning materials, among others.
Ms Keteku who is the acting headmistress for the school, said it was incumbent on the government, school administrators, parents, teachers, students and the private sector and all who want to see a developing Ghana become a developed Ghana to put their acts together to ensure a brighter future for children.
On the needs of the school she said it needed a 12 unit classroom block to cater for the fourth year students as well as to decongest the current classroom which had 45 students each.
She also said there was the need for more staff accommodation, a library and computer laboratory and the rehabilitation of the dinning hall complex.
The Member of Parliament of Ho-West constituency, Mr Francis Agbotse expressed indignation on the high rate of indiscipline among the youth especially towards the environment.
He said it was sad to note that for the lust of rats some people had set fire to the bush leading to the destruction of 13 wooden electric poles and thus disconnecting the area of normal electricity supply for the past two weeks.
Mr Agbotse fervently appealed to chiefs to champion the crusade against bush fires by being proactive to ward off bush fires in the future or else electricity will remain interrupted to the detriment of socio-economic lives of the people.
He also appealed to the electorate to avail themselves to all programmes on the electoral calendar from the replacement of identity cards, exhibition and others that will mandate them to vote.
The president of the past students association, Mr Justice Senyo Tsitsi presented 11 computers and two printers worth GHc7,400 and books valued at GHc 2, 000 on behalf of the association to the school.
He said looking at the deteriorating infrastructure of the school there was the urgent need for past students to know that they had a big responsibility at hand adding, “Let us all come together and put our shoulders to the wheel”.
Prizes were presented to 80 persons of the school community comprising students, teaching and non-teaching staff for excelling in their duties.