He said government’s introduction and commitment to implementing Free SHS Education, the restoration of allowances for  nurses and teacher trainees and the School Feeding Programme are all geared towards providing quality and affordable education in the country.

The Regional Minister said this when he commissioned a two-storey GETFUND Administrative block for the Twene Amanfo Secondary and Technical school in Sunyani.

The facility which started in 2007 under former President Kufour’s administration, has an IT centre, library, Headmaster’s office, staff common room among others.

He assured teachers government was determined to improve on their welfare and teaching condition and urged them to give out their best to ensure that quality education is achieved in the country.

To the students, he appealed to them to take advantage of the numerous interventions that the government was introducing in the educational sector for a better future and study hard to justify the investment that their parents are putting their education.

Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Sunyani, Dr. Evelyn Kumi Richardson complained about inadequate facilities at the school that has trained and produced great men and women and therefore appealed to the old students association to help their alma mater.

She pledged the support of her outfit to make sure that the school gets its fair share of development and appealed to philanthropists to come to the aid of the school.

Nana Bofotia Boamposem, the Krontihene of the Sunyani traditional area pledged the willingness of the chiefs to help boost education in region.

“If you are not educated you are more or less blind or deaf”, Nana Boamposem emphasised.

The Headmaster if the school Mr. Nsiah Gyabaa, in his welcome address commended successive governments their contribution towards the completion of the project.

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The school, with over 100 pupils lack basic learning materials including stationery which hampered the delivery of quality education and significantly affected the academic standards.

Itel Ghana’s donation to the school formed part of its commitment to enhancing the social and educational standards of people within the community in which it operates.

Items donated include text and exercise books, school bags, stationery among other study materials.

The company also held an interactive session with the pupils led by its brand ambassador and actress, Priscilla Opoku Agyeman popularly known as ‘Ahoufe Patri’.

The Communications Manager for Itel Mobile Ghana, Michael Tuekpe said the company remains resolute in touching the lives of people and communities through its corporate social responsibilities especially in the areas of education and health.

He noted that the company as part of activities to mark the Easter festivities also supported a blood donation drive in the Ashanti Region to stock the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital blood bank.

He further indicated that the company intends to organize and support more of such social activities which it believes, contribute to making the lives of its customer base better.

Itel Mobile Ghana is a leading producer of mobile handsets in Ghana delivering affordable and quality mobile phones. It recently launched a hi-tech S31 model device.

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Speaking at the first national conference of the University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (UTAG) at the University of Ghana on Wednesday, Mr Nsowah lamented that although most countries conducted assessments to identify challenges and make recommendations to improve education quality, very few of those recommendations are implemented.

He said countries like Ghana have the desire to review its educational systems to adopt new strategies to bring about improvements including curriculum innovation however it tends to regard the school as the only education agency in society. He said this is leading to the country having too many objectives for its basic school curriculum.

“In Ghana many education reviews have been undertaken but the curriculum continue to be overloaded or very ambitious. In what has been referred to as the good old days. Some of us wrote the common entrance, the equivalent of today’s BECE in two subjects; English and Maths… but today BECE candidates write exams in nine subjects,” he noted.

He said schools must not be made to assume responsibility for every form of education students need else they risk compromising on quality education.

Quoting a 1990 research report presented at the 11^th conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers

In Barbados, he said Malaysia which adopted only five (5) subjects to be taught in basic schools, emphasized on skills such as language and mathematical thinking, and subjects in the pure sciences, social sciences and vocational skills.

He noted that other agencies within society must also be engaged in educating pupils.

He called for educational curriculum that made room for in-classroom and out-classroom lessons to promote holistic learning.

“Why must the school teach everything in the classroom, it is because we are obsessed with exams and we are moving dangerously to very dangerous points.,. We are assuming that when you write an exam on a subject, you have developed the habit but I don’t think that is true.”

He also bemoaned the lack of linkages to connect pre-tertiary to tertiary education leading to the situation where each level is blaming the other for the poor quality of products churned out.

The theme for the conference was “The Quality of Manpower and Teaching at the Pre-Tertiary Level: Its Impact on University Education.”

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