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200 buses ready for distribution to
SHSs
Tetrem (Ash), July 15, Ghanadot/GNA - Government has taken
delivery of 200 buses to be distributed to Senior High
Schools nationwide to improve transportation challenges
facing them, Professor Dominic Fobih, Minister of Education,
Science and Sports has said.
He said out of the 200, the Ashanti Region would receive 31
but did not provide the entire distribution list for the
rest of the regions.
Professor Fobih announced this when he addressed a durbar of
chiefs and people as well as students of Osei Tutu II
College at Tetrem in the Afigya-Kwabre District during a
working visit to the College on Monday where he presented
one of the buses.
He said the government was committed to enhancing quality
education, hence the new education reform, which is aimed
among other things to encourage all children of school going
age to be in school.
Professor Fobih was optimistic that if all primary schools
in the country benefit from the School Feeding Programme,
every child would be in school.
He said with the reform, Junior High School graduates who
could not gained admission to tertiary level would be given
a one-year vocational training to enable them to become
self-employed.
Professor Fobih stressed the need for chiefs, parents and
other stakeholders to support Government in its efforts to
strengthen quality education in the country.
Mr Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, Ashanti Regional Minister,
on behalf of President Kufuor, expressed condolence to the
bereaved families of the recent lorry accident on the Offin
River.
He said the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) has taken
notice of the numerous problems facing the school including
the tarring of the road from Boamang to the town stressing
that something concrete would be done to solve the problem.
Mr Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister of Defence and MP for
Afigya-Sekyere West assured the people that efforts were
being made to tar the road networks in the area and urged
them to exercise patience.
Mr Samuel Ekuoba Gyasi, the headmaster of the College, said
the academic performance of the students in the final exams
were encouraging in spite of the poor conditions they found
themselves in the school.
He also stressed that the conditions under, which staff and
students work does not augur well for effective teaching and
learning and therefore called for the urgent need for the
provision of science and computer laboratory equipment,
dining hall, classrooms, dormitory blocks and staff
bungalows.
Nana Osei Kwame, Chief of Tetrem, appealed for the
construction of a new school block for the two dilapidated
structures in the town.
GNA
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