News:
July 20, 2011
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Wenchi, Prof. George Gyan Baffour, has provided some schools within the constituency with computers and television sets in fulfillment of a promise made, and his personal quest to help improve the standard of education in the area.
The beneficiary schools include the Frema Seventh Day Adventist Primary/Junior High School (JHS) in Wenchi, which received five Dell desk top computers and accessories, plus two step-down stabilisers.
The Nwoase Local Authority Primary/ JHS also had five Dell desktop computers and accessories plus a 21-inch color television, whilst the Nchiraa Senior High School also received five computers and accessories, a colour printer and a 21-inch colour television.
While presenting the items to the school authorities, an appeal was made for the provision of air-conditioners to help protect the computers from excessive heat, for the equipment to last longer.
Professor Gyan Baffour assured the authorities of the beneficiary schools to take good care of the equipment, and use them for the intended purpose, which is to give school children from the constituency opportunities to take part in the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) on ICT.
According to the Member of Parliament, lots of BECE candidates from the area had been denied access to take part in the ICT examination, as their colleagues in other parts of the country do, due to the lack of facilities and equipment to aid the teaching and learning of ICT.
He gave the assurance of doing what he can as an MP to help arrest the situation with the provision of education-related facilities and equipment so that school children from the constituency have equal access as their colleagues in other parts of the country.
Professor George Gyan Baffour bemoaned conditions witnessed at the Nchiraa Senior High School, which was established by the community members, hoping it would be absorbed by the Ghana Education Service (GES).
The Nchiraa Senior High School is currently being housed in a converted five-unit primary school block by the chiefs, elders and people of the community for children who complete their JHS education.
Despite persistent appeals by the people of Nchiraa for the GES to absorb the Nwoase Community Senior High School, the school is yet to receive a response.
Prof. Gyan Baffour expressed dismay with the structures, facility and lack of teachers and teaching materials, and promised to assist the school in achieving its goal, for the children from the area to gain access to second cycle education.
The Headmaster of the Nchiraa Senior High School, Philip Gyebi, disclosed that the school had a permanent site for future development, while appealing that the GES kindly expedite action on absorbing the school.
He said the school, currently with a student population of 100 from Nchiraa and its surrounding communities, has only forms 1 and 2 and is in its second year of existence.
Source: Chronicle