Effutu-Awutu-Senya Education Directorate holds performance review meeting
Teaching and learning in seven basic schools in the Awutu-Senya district of the Central Region take place under sheds due to lack of facilities, authorities have said.
The schools are Obo-Adakaba and Opembo Anglican primary schools, Bawjiase Presbyterian, Odotom Seven Day Adventist, Awutu Zion, Adawukwa Catholic and Kwaw Labi Junior High Schools.
The Effutu-Awutu-Senya Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service, Mr. John Afful said this in a report he read at the first Annual district Performance Review in Winneba.
He said the government and Plan Ghana, an NGO operating in the area, had provided school buildings for some communities, adding that 18 more classrooms and furniture were still needed to ease congestion in Junior High schools.
Mr. Afful said because of the capitation Grant and School Feeding Programme, enrolment in Kindergarten, primary, Junior and Senior High Schools in the area had increased tremendously.
He said only six of the 1,094 classrooms in Kindergarten, primary Junior and Senior High were hooked to the electricity and that only one school was equipped with computers that provided access to Information Communication Technology.
Mr Afful appealed to parents to enrol their children in school to take advantage of the capitation and feeding programmes.
He suggested that the District Education Planning Team should organize periodic skills development and role performance workshops for members of School Management Committees to strengthen them.
Mr. Afful said out a total of 296 teachers granted study leave with pay in the Central Region to further their education at the tertiary level, 52 were from the Effutu-Awutu-Senya Education Directorate.
He appealed to NGOs and philanthropists to complement government efforts by helping to provide school buildings, furniture and other learning and teaching materials.