REACTIVATE MAWULI SCHOOL ASSEMBLY HALL PROJECT (PAGE 11)

The authorities of Mawuli Senior High School have called on the Ministry of Education to reactivate the school’s assembly hall complex, administration and library block projects.
The projects were initiated in 1999 to prepare the grounds for the admission and integration of blind students into the regular school system.
The Assistant Headmaster of the school in charge of administration, Mr Martin T. K. Amiteye, made the appeal at the 59th Honour’s Day celebration of the school in Ho. He said the projects were initiated by the government under the Public Investment Project (PIP) but had either been abandoned or had seen little progress.
The theme for the celebration was: “The place of co-curricular activities in the enhancement of discipline and academic work in schools”.
Mr Amiteye said the administration and library block projects were behind schedule and would affect the effective implementation of the senior high school programme.
He said the school had been mandated to admit and integrate blind students but a project that was started to enable the school to embrace the project had also come to a standstill and called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC) to step in to reactivate the project.
Additionally, Mr Amiteye said staff accommodation was inadequate and the few available staff bungalows were in very deplorable state.
He called on the Ministry of Education to urgently renovate existing bungalows and build new ones to provide adequate accommodation for more than 70 teachers of the school.
On academic performance, the assistant headmaster said the school performed creditably in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in 2008.
The school presented 426 students in WASSCE in 2008 and recorded 100 per cent pass. Out of the 426 students, 359 qualified for admission to the university.
Additionally, the school won the national prize on a civic education programme dubbed “Project Citizen” and is scheduled to represent the nation at the continental level.
Mr Amiteye said Mawuli School had, over the 59 years of its establishment, been a centre for the transformation of minds, hearts and hands of people who had contributed towards national development and the enrichment of human life worldwide.
He, therefore, called for the right interventions to complete the projects in the school.
The Deputy Minister of Education, Dr J. S. Annan, said indiscipline in schools undermined development and threatened the government’s efforts at producing a reputable manpower base from educational institutions.
He, therefore, expressed the desire that the government and other partners in the educational sector would collaborate to produce quality men and women needed to launch the nation into an accelerated growth rate and break the cycle of poverty.