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President assures teachers of motivation to stay at post
Kibi, May 24. Ghanadot/GNA-
President John Evans Atta Mills has stated that, government
would continue to think of ways of motivating and ensuring
retention of teachers in the teaching service to enable them to
play the expected role in the educational system.
He observed that, teacher education constitute in-build
mechanism which serves all the components of national
development and ensures its sustainability hence teacher
education needs to be accorded the utmost attention.
This was contained in a speech read on behalf of the President
by Mrs Elizabeth Amoah Tetteh, Deputy Minister of Education
in-charge of Pre-Tertiary Education at the first congregation of
the Kibi Presbyterian College of Education at Kyebi on Saturday.
The college which was established in 1963 as a teacher training
college was granted accreditation as a tertiary institution on
September 1, 2007.
President Mills expressed concern that private schools in Accra
and Kumasi have both higher pupil/teacher ratios and only 25 per
cent trained staff and yet pupils in these schools perform
better than those in public schools.
He therefore called on teachers and all public servants to show
real commitment to work and do so as duty to the nation and
humanity.
Mr James Adu-Opare, Director of Institute of Education,
University of Cape Coast (UCC) who was the guest speaker for the
occasion called on the college to generate the content of
education that could support the new educational reforms.
He called on the graduands to take advantage of the opportunity
available at the Centre for Continuing Education of UCC to
upgrade their status.
Rev. E.Y. Omenako, the Principal of Kibi Presbyterian College of
Education appealed for the rehabilitation of the 2.4 kilometre
stretch of access road to the school and the roads in the school
and also said the school also needed staff accommodation ,
departmental offices and an auditorium.
GNA
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