THE Volta Regional Minister, Mr Joseph Amenowode, has inaugurated four school projects aimed at ensuring the effective delivery of education at Kpando in the North Dayi District of the Volta Region.
The projects are, a 400-bed capacity girls dormitory block for the Vakpo Secondary Technical School, six-unit classroom block each for Kpando Technical Institute and the Kpando Senior High School and a 12-unit classroom block for the Bishop Herman High School.
The occasion was crowned with the best teacher/worker award in the district from 2006 to 2008. In all 40 teaching and non-teaching staff from the primary, junior and senior high school levels were awarded.
In his address, Mr Amenowode said contracts would be awarded to only competent contractors without any other consideration, and that 80 SHS projects had been awarded in the region in addition to 120 basic schools as part of the schools under trees project.
He further said contracts for the construction of 100 SHS projects such as dormitories, dinning halls, classrooms and teachers bungalows had been awarded in almost all the senior high schools in the region.
On the teacher’s awards scheme, Mr Amenowode expressed dissatisfaction at the decline in the standard of education in recent years and called for holistic effort to reverse the poor performance of pupils in the region.
The Minister of Tourism, Ms Akua Sena Dansua, called on teachers to take the awards ceremony as a motivation to mould the youth into good characters, adding that those who took delight in insulting teachers should refrain from it.
Ms Dansua who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Dayi Constituency asked the youth to desist from cyber fraud and rather harness the positive aspects of information and communication technology.
The Catholic Bishop of Ho, Most Reverend Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu, called for a reversal of the senior high school from three years to four years.
He said education policy makers should be detached from political decision makers in order to avoid the incidence of producing intellectual criminals caused by the high dropout rate in schools.
According to him, many students were forced into remedial classes to resit examinations because the three year policy imposed stress on the educational system.
The Regional Director of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Gabriel Kploanyi, said teachers had done a lot but their best was not enough.
He argued that it was pertinent to provide adequate infrastructure rather than prolonging the length of stay in school and that the three-year system must rather be enforced to ensure that good and quality students were produced.
For her part, the Kpando District Director of GES, Ms Dora Agorsor, said the discovery of oil in the country must necessitate the provision of accommodation for teachers to enable them live on campus.
In an address, the Kpando District Chief Executive, Mr Francis Ganyaglo said 15 key areas had been earmarked to improve on education in the district.
He commended the award winners and asked others to take a cue from them.
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