News:
December 7, 2010
The Member of Parliament for Okere, Mr Dan Botwe, has expressed concern about the continuous falling standard of education in the Akuapem area.
He said results from the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Akuapem ridge over the years was nothing to right home about. Mr Botwe said part of the problem could be laid at the doorstep of parents as a result of lack of parental control and broken homes.
He was addressing the annual harvest and thanksgiving service of the Calvary Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana at Apiredi on Sunday. Mr Botwe appealed to parents to see their children’s education as a profitable investment and help them to reach wherever their academic brilliance would take them. He said it was for that reason that he had been allocating a chunk of his MP’s Common Fund to improve teaching and learning in the constituency.
Mr Botwe also appealed to teachers in the area at the basic level to be committed and dedicated to the children by improving their teaching skills and performance. He said the large number of youth unemployment in the country could also be attributed to children who could not qualify to enter senior secondary school and also due to the inability of some parents to finance the secondary education of their children.
Mr Botwe said some schools in his constituency scored zero per cent at the BECE and promised to continue to support educational development to help improve the situation. He commended the Presbyterian Church for its contribution to education and other social development such as agriculture over the years and urged other churches to do same.
Nana Saforo Okoampa III, Apiredehene who chaired the function, commended the congregation on their contributions to the development of the town. He said the five-year development plan of the town which was launched last year was on course and announced that early next year a durbar would be held to discuss how to continue with the plan.
Source: GNA