GES emphasises good character build-up for students

Accra, June 25, GNA- Mr. Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) on Wednesday emphasized the need for students to build good character, while pursuing their academic laurels.
"Your success in life should not only depend on high academic laurels but you should endeavour to build character of high standards so that you can become good leaders in future."
Mr. Bannerman-Mensah made this remarks at Galaxy International School's (GIS) 5th graduation ceremony held in Accra.
The Director General said GIS, apart from offering the youth quality education had added the training and inculcation of building good character and asked them to be ambassadors and show the world the virtues they have acquired.
He said, “you have dedicated teachers, infrastructure and to develop your talents of what you want to become.” He appealed to the students to obey school rules and regulation by maintaining higher discipline in the school.
"You should learn hard as many children have not had the opportunity as you have been offered," he said.
Mr Bannerman-Mensah charged the school to expand its programme of offering more scholarships to the needy but brilliant students in the country to supplement government's effort in that direction.
He commended the students who had taken part in international competitions and achieved results and urged them to continue to lift the name of the school higher.
He said GES would continue to encourage more collaboration between the school and other private institutions in their role towards providing access to quality education in the country.
Mr. Michael Nsowah, former Director General of the GES, who chaired the occasion, noted that with the country's drive to promote science and technology, the school had become the leader in that field.
He said the congenial atmosphere, infrastructure and the high standard of discipline in the school had made students to work harder and desirous to achieve results.
Mr Nsowah, who is in-charge of the School Feeding Programme praised the school for winning various international awards and urged them to strive to attain more laurels.
Mr Tamer Kirca, General Manager of Galaxy Educational Company noted that since the inception of the school in September 2001, it had grown by leaps and bounds in terms of student population and infrastructure.
"The school can now boast of 41 nationalities pursuing local and foreign examination courses, thus reflecting the true international status of the school."
He said the modern trend of education did not only end in the classroom, adding that the school had embraced the speedy development of science and technology.
"It is in keeping with this trend of education that we are encouraged to expose our students to global competition in energy, engineering and the environment," he remarked.
On the school's performance in this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination and West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, Mr Kirca said the school, which presented 17 students in the two examinations respectively scored 100 per cent success.
The General Manager said plans were advanced to acquire large track of land close to Accra for a full boarding school to run concurrently with day and boarding facilities.
The school presented certificates and gifts to students and teachers.