IMPROVE ALL LEVELS OF EDUCATION (PAGE 11)

Story: Kwame Asiedu Marfo, Tarkwa

The Wassa West District Assembly, which has assumed a municipal status, must work very hard to make all levels of education in the municipality become centres of excellence, the Dean of Students of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Dr Sulemana Alhassan, has advised.
He said already the UMaT had taken the lead, and was ready to collaborate with all schools in the municipality to become centres of excellence.
“When we are able to do this, the Tarkwa township will not rely on mining alone as the sole business, but education will also become a sustainable business enterprise,” he explained.
Dr Alhassan, who is also a Senior Lecturer at the university, was speaking at the inauguration of a reconstituted Board of Governors for the Fiaseman Senior High School at Tarkwa.
He noted that education in Ghana was going through significant metamorphosis, not only in terms of curricular but in general administration as well.
“Indeed, it is becoming increasingly more expensive, competitive and administratively complex,” he said, adding, “We are in an era when funds are not easily available, but student numbers are increasing and students are becoming more intolerant,” he added.
He said this called for putting in place all statutory institutional frameworks to assist the headmaster and his staff to administer the affairs of the school.
Dr Alhassan stressed that the inauguration of the board was heart-warming and must be cherished, since it was very important to ensure the smooth running of the school which was one of the only two renowned senior high schools in Tarkwa.