The finals of the first edition of the innovative Ho West Basic Schools’ Annual Quiz Competition was held on 5th March, 2015 with Tsito Old Junior High School emerging as the overall winners. For their award, the school received a set of desktop computer and a printer to facilitate the processing of official documents in the school, which hitherto had to be done from commercial secretariat service centres outside of the school. Three pupils who represented the school in the competition were also awarded scholarships to complete their senior high school education in addition to other sovouniers, two of them are presently first year students at Mawuli Senior High School and Keta Senior High Technical School. The third pupil who is now in the final year preparing to write her Basic Education Certificate Examination this year would also be placed on scholarship once she qualifies for admission into a senior high school.
The competition which was instituted by the Member of Parliament for Ho West Constituency, Hon Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah is aimed at encouraging the participants and all pupils in the district to take their studies seriously in other to improve upon performance and quality of education in the district.
This year’s edition which is on the theme “improving quality through competition” kick starts today, 17th February 2016 at 9.00am at 16 centres with about 64 public and private junior high schools participating. 16 winners from this first round would be divided into 4 groups of 4 members to compete at a second round to be held on 26th February, 2016. The second round would produce 4 winners for the final round on the 4th of March.
The Member of Parliament who described last year’s event as a huge success expressed optimism of its positive impact and pledged to continue to support through various means, the development of education in the district. He hinted that, a USA and Ghana registered charity organization known as NGORLI which is committed to promoting quality education and improving the living conditions of the rural poor is supporting him to organize this year’s competition.
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