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GES calls for support to enhance education quality
Dodowa (GAR), Sept. 16,
GNA - Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director-General of the
Ghana Education Service (GES), on Tuesday said although
access to education had improved, enhancing its quality was
now the challenge.
He therefore expressed the commitment of GES to intensify
its supervision on teaching and learning and called for the
support of civil society to achieve the intended objective.
Mr. Bannerman-Mensah was speaking to newsmen at Dodowa in
Greater Accra where he visited selected schools in and
around the Dangme West District to interact with pupils and
teachers to mark “My First Day at School.”
He pointed out that civil society, especially parents,
remained important stakeholders to improve education, hence
the need for them to cooperate with the GES.
The Director-General therefore, charged parents to regularly
visit their wards in schools to assess their performance as
well as that of the teachers, in order to inform the
education office of any misconduct of a teacher, in case
they witnessed one.
Mr. Emmanuel Atsu Mensah, Dangme West Director of Education,
also identified lack of support from parents as affecting
education in the area.
He said most parents refused to attend Parent-Teacher
Association (PTA) meetings, which provided the forum to
exchange ideas to improve teaching and learning, attributing
this to poverty and ignorance of most parents.
"Most illiterate parents still do not appreciate the value
of education, whilst others have the perception that the PTA
was organised to just extort money from them."
Mr. Mensah said to reverse the trend, the District Education
Office through the support of the traditional council and
other local authorities, sent round officers to embark on a
door-to-door campaign to educate the community on the need
to enrol their children.
He said the campaign had led to an increase in enrolment
this academic year and expressed the hope that it would be
higher in subsequent years.
Mr Bannerman-Mensah visited the Dodowa Presbyterian Primary,
Fiankonya D/A Primary, Mobole D/A Primary and Odumse D/A
Primary and presented the children with exercise books,
biscuits, paper caps and fruits drinks.
He advised them to always be in school.
Dodowa Presby admitted 23 children pupils for Kindergarten
(KG) and 43 for Class One, 51 pupils were enrolled for KG
one at Fiankonya, whilst 28 and 24 pupils were enrolled for
KG One and KG Two respectively at Mobole.
Forty-six children were also enrolled at Odumse for KG One.
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