Kumasi Prisons initiates educational programme for student inmates
By General News | Fri, 28 Mar 2008
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The Kumasi Central Prisons has initiated a comprehensive educational programme in the prison yard to enable its Junior High School and Senior High School student inmates to continue their education whiles serving their sentences.
Mr Ambrose Imoro Salifu, Ashanti Regional Commander, who hinted the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Kumasi yesterday, said under the programme, an arrangement would also be made for the students to write the Basic Education Examination (BECE) and the West Africa Secondary Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
He said the move, which would soon commence in Kumasi, is part of their efforts to effectively integrate the prisoners into society as responsible and useful citizens when they come out.
Giving more details about the programme, the prisons boss said, 69 inmates comprising those serving in juvenile corrective centres have been selected and that whiles formal tuition is being given to the students.
He said informal education in the form of literacy as well as skill training would be provided for those who do not have formal education at all.
Mr Salifu said the programme would soon take-off, initially in the prisons chapel, but would later be moved to permanent classroom blocks currently under construction in the prison premises.
Tuition, logistics and learning materials, he said, would be provided by the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Prisons Service.
He thanked the GES, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology and the National Youth Council (NYC), among others, which had so far supported the programme and called for more support from stakeholders and civil society organization.
Mr Ambrose Imoro Salifu, Ashanti Regional Commander, who hinted the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Kumasi yesterday, said under the programme, an arrangement would also be made for the students to write the Basic Education Examination (BECE) and the West Africa Secondary Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
He said the move, which would soon commence in Kumasi, is part of their efforts to effectively integrate the prisoners into society as responsible and useful citizens when they come out.
Giving more details about the programme, the prisons boss said, 69 inmates comprising those serving in juvenile corrective centres have been selected and that whiles formal tuition is being given to the students.
He said informal education in the form of literacy as well as skill training would be provided for those who do not have formal education at all.
Mr Salifu said the programme would soon take-off, initially in the prisons chapel, but would later be moved to permanent classroom blocks currently under construction in the prison premises.
Tuition, logistics and learning materials, he said, would be provided by the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Prisons Service.
He thanked the GES, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology and the National Youth Council (NYC), among others, which had so far supported the programme and called for more support from stakeholders and civil society organization.
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