A section of the students. INSET: Headmaster, Kwame Owusu-Aduomi addressing the gathering
The Mpraeso Senior High School in the Kwahu–South District of the Eastern Region marked its 58th Speech and Prize Giving Day over the weekend.
Speaking on the anniversary theme: “Ensuring Sustainable Quality Education in Ghana: the Role of the Stakeholders”, the Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour, said the Akufo-Addo government acknowledges the direct and indirect links between education, poverty and development.
He said the government was prioritizing education through improvements in the provision of facilities and access, gender parity and skills training, and personnel development to secure the future of the country.
He reiterated the government’s commitment to ensure that the youth are well educated to strengthen the human resource base needed for accelerated development.
He said the government had allocated 15.6% of the total projected expenditure of the 2020 national budget to education alone.
He encouraged parents and guardians, teachers and the old students to continue to play their respective roles by providing the needed support, ingredients and motivation to complement government’s efforts towards the provision of quality and accessible education.
The Headmaster of the school, Kwame Owusu-Aduomi, commended the Old Students Association for their enormous contributions towards the development of the school.
He enumerated some of the challenges that the school was facing, and appealed passionately to the government and other stakeholders to help address them.
He said there were inadequate furniture (beds, desks, dining tables and chairs), dormitories, school bus and dining hall complex to accommodate a large number of the student population.
Paa Kofi Ansong, Member of Council of State and an old student of the school who chaired the function, advised the students to take their studies seriously to justify the huge investment the government had made in them.
FROM Daniel Bampoe, Mpraeso – Kwahu