The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly has doubled its efforts to overturn the falling standard of education in the area.
The assembly is constructing new classroom blocks and teacher bungalows especially in remote areas to improve the education sector.
Tamale Mayor, Abdul Hanan Gundado said the Assembly’s vision is to make quality education delivery accessible to all children of school going age.
Abdul Hanan Gundado implied that education remained one of the Assembly’s top most priorities.
He described formal education as the panacea to reducing poverty in the Tamale Metro area.
“The effective tool or the surest way by which we can alleviate poverty in this part of our country is education and this year for instance we have ensured that a chunk of our resources go into the construction and renovation of school infrastructure.”
According to him, the Assembly has also deepened its collaboration with the Metro Education Directorate to intensify monitoring and supervision of teachers.
“I have been in touch with our education directorate and we have come up with a number of strategies and one of it will be to ensure that we do effective supervision by enabling more of our circuit supervisors to go to the schools and get to know what our teachers are doing in the classroom.”
Mr. Gundado lamented, “We have also realized that sometimes our teachers are there but when you go to the schools, effective teaching and learning is not undertaken in the classrooms”
“I have also tried to engage members of our community especially our opinion leaders to see how best they can support the education directorate to ensure that teaching and learning becomes more effective.”
By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana