GOVT COMMITTED TO PROVIDING QUALITY EDUCATION (PAGE 11, JAN 27, 2010)

THE Government will continue to lay emphasis on providing quality education in the country, the Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid, has affirmed.
He said the Government would, therefore, work relentlessly to provide all that was needed for teacher training institutions to be better equipped to turn out the much needed and desired teacher-manpower to meet the teacher-pupil ratio.
Mr Khalid was addressing the second matriculation of 240 trainee teachers of the Nusrat Jahan Ahmaddiya Muslim College of Education in Wa.
The minister said the government placed premium on human resource development, since the wealth of any nation depended on it.
“We should remind ourselves that our institutions are the bedrock of education since we virtually turn out the educators,” he stated, saying that as such they needed to set the required standards at all times and ensure that they deployed every available resource to achieve the best results.
He stressed the need to improve areas such as teaching practice by enhancing supervision and the institution of effective method of evaluation of trainees who would expose their ability in all the teaching methodologies.
Mr Khalid congratulated the matriculants and assured them that they were pursuing a noble profession which was pivotal to the success of the nation’s educational pursuit and the overall development of the country.
The regional minister advised them to learn hard and come out with better results that would offer them opportunities to serve the country and to further their education.
“Aside of your academic pursuit, you are also expected to uphold good moral values, eschew occultism and be disciplined by obeying the rules and regulations governing the college.
Mr Khalid announced that a modern classroom block and a library would soon be constructed for the college.
The Principal of the college, Mr Collins Yeboah Druye, appealed for more facilities that would enhance teaching and learning in the college.
He mentioned inadequate accommodation for members of staff and lack of transport as some of the problems facing the college.