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Education vital for development- Mrs
Osafo-Addo
Kumasi, June 10, Ghanadot/GNA- Mrs Leticia Osafo-Addo,
Member of the Board of Governors of the Ghana Education
Trust Fund (GETFUND), has said that, for any country to make
any meaningful progress, it must invest heavily in
education.
She noted that, the provision of infrastructure, teaching
and learning materials and adequate training of teachers
were essential for quality education delivery.
Mrs Osafo-Addo was speaking at the 35th anniversary and
second Speech and Prize-Giving Day of the Anglican Senior
High School (S.H.S) in Kumasi, under the theme, ”Enhancing
Academic Excellence Through Infrastructural Development”.
She said with the intervention of micro-processors, a wide
range of opportunities have been introduced, adding that,
“Today, distance is no longer a limiting factor for the
acquisition of knowledge and information.”
Mrs Osafo-Addo said Ghanaians must be creative in the design
and implementation of infrastructural projects, adding, “it
is also necessary to have ingenuity, precision and decisive
action to orient and implement whatever we intend to do.”
The Board Member, however, emphasised that, to finance such
huge and major infrastructure projects, there was the need
to use investment instruments like bonds, debentures and
trust funds.
Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Regional Director of Education
said the government has put in a number of interventions to
address and enhance the issue of infrastructural
developments in the education sector.
He said despite the encouraging improvement in
infrastructural development, there were still some schools
with deplorable buildings and educational facilities, which
was a challenge not to only the government, but also to
district assemblies, the GETFUND, donor agencies and
individuals.
Education, he said, must help to create the wealth with
which the nation could pursue worthy objectives with a high
level of cultural development and a stable system of
democratic governance.
Mr Onyinah noted that, the government was guided in its
actions by the conviction that, formal education contributed
in a systematic way to the realization of the national
vision for a new and better country.
Mr Samuel Boateng, Executive Director of Kessben Group of
Companies and an old student, donated $12,000 to the school.
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