GES Council determined to improve standards of education
Apam (C/R), July 30, GNA – The Ghana Education Service (GES) Council has ended its tour of the regions to collate information on problems impeding quality education delivery in the country.
Mr Francis Kojo Arthur, a member of the Council, who announced this when he met stakeholders in education at Apam, said the body was doing everything possible to reverse the fallen standards of education in the country.
The stakeholders included Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Regional and District Education Office Staffs, National Association of Graduate Teachers, Ghana National Association of Teachers, Conference of Directors of Education (CODE), Ghana National Association of Private Schools, Parent Teachers Association, School Management Committees and students.
Representatives from Regional and District Education Offices appealed to the Ghana Education Service to include technical and vocational institutions in the provision of furniture and other education materials for schools.
They expressed concern about the length of time for the promotion of teachers, delay in placing them on correct scales and delay in the payment of their claims.
CHASS appealed to the GES to stop third and fourth year students of Senior High School from writing the 2013 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination, to reduce pressure on facilities and personnel to invigilate the examination.
CHASS appealed to the GES to impress upon the Electricity Company of Ghana to stop billing schools commercial rates as that had made the schools to incur heavy bills.
CODE expressed concern about the period of running sandwich programmes, which often coincided with the school calendar and called for improvement in the quality of Distant Education Programme.
Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, Gomoa West District Chief Executive, called for transfer of teachers, who had worked at a particular place for a long time.
Agyewodin Professor Adu Gyamfi Ampem, Chairman of the Council, said increase in school population throughout the country had put pressure on educational facilities.
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