Obuasi, March 4, GNA - The Obuasi Municipal Chief Executive, Mr John Alexander Ackon, has urged students of Obuasi Senior High/Technical School to desist from all forms of vices that would inhibit their desire to attain high academic laurels.
'I urge you to desist from all forms of vices that can truncate your dreams and rather cultivate the virtues of discipline and hard work that would enable you to climb higher on the academic calendar', he said.
Mr. Ackon, a past student of the school, was speaking the school's speech and prize giving day. The theme was 'Achieving academic excellence in Ghanaian schools -the interplay of discipline and hard work'.
He said emphasis on the supply of teaching and learning materials, school infrastructure and the availability of brilliant curriculum are not the panacea for achieving academic excellence.
'These things need to be combined with personal discipline and hard work by both teachers and students,' Mr Ackon said and added that it was as a result of discipline and hard work that some less endowed schools with no lights and even running water excel to the highest level.
Mr. Ackon said the correlation between discipline, hard work and academic excellence had been amply demonstrated by the current management as the school had performed well in West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) over the last three years.
Dr. John Kwasi Afriyie of the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education of the Kumasi Polytechnic said the enforcement of discipline would ensure a clean, orderly and acceptable academic atmosphere for students to work hard.
The Headmaster, Mr Kwadwo Owusu Akomea, said the school has no assembly hall and the dining hall is in a dilapidated state apart from being too small to accommodate the current student population of over 3,000.
Mr. Akomea commended AngloGold Ashanti for providing the school with a new 15-seater Toyota bus and appealed to the company to further support the school to solve its assembly hall problem and staff accommodation challenges.
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