{"id":26586,"date":"2014-06-22T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=26586"},"modified":"2014-06-22T08:39:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T08:39:38","slug":"bece-is-not-end-to-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=26586","title":{"rendered":"BECE is not end to education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<div>\n<p>The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Kojo Bonsu, has advised students who have just completed the week-long Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) not to consider the BECE as an end to their educational persuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An official of the assembly, Mrs Lois Ohene-Ayisi, gave the advise on behalf of Mr Bonsu when a team from the assembly and the Metro Educational Directorate visited some schools in the metropolis yesterday, the final day for the BECE.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by the Metro Educational Director, Mrs Naana Abudu, toured some centres in the metropolis, including the Serwaa Nyarko Girls and the Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI) centres.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bonsu advised the students to continue learning and prepare themselves to continue their education to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Abudu expressed delight at the number of candidates who took part in the examination, saying, the number of female students was encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>The Principal of KTI, Dr Joseph Abeiku Apprey, urged the government to invest more in vocational and technical education.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was the need to place emphasis on technical-based education to train the needed human resource to support the country\u2019s efforts at attaining a middle-income status and to safeguard the future of the youth.<\/p>\n<p>He said the country needed to move away from the concept of just going to school to get a certificate and concentrate on learning to get the needed skills that could support the country\u2019s development agenda.<\/p>\n<p>In separate interviews with the Daily Graphic, some of the students expressed the optimism of making it to senior high school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Source: Graphic<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Kojo Bonsu, has advised students who have just completed the week-long Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) not to consider the BECE as an end to their educational persuit. An official of the assembly, Mrs Lois Ohene-Ayisi, gave the advise on behalf of Mr Bonsu when a team from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-26586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}