Director of Education Charges Students To Lead Honest Life.

Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Education, Ms Georgina Enyan has challenged students to lead honest life which will protect their integrity in future.

Ms Enyan was speaking at the 20th Anniversary and maiden speech and prize Giving Day of the Koase Senior High Technical School at Koase near Wenchi. The occasion was themed “Honesty and Hard Work a tool For National Development.

Koase Senior High was established in 1991 as a result of government’s policy of developing the technical and vocational educational sector. The other aim was to train students to acquire the requisite skills and knowledge needed for national development. The school was initially running only Agricultural, Technical and Vocational programmes until recently when General Arts and Home Science were added. Eleven years ago the student population was 71 and the teaching staff numbered 15 but currently the population has increased to about one thousand with 37 teaching staff. Twenty years after its establishment, the school still faces problems of accommodation and inadequate number of logistics. The Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Education, Ms Georgina Enyan said the development of the country depends on the level of honesty they display as students and later in their working carrier. Ms Enyan added that the level of honesty exhibited in their lives is the ability to resist corruption, speak the truth and be sincere in all their endeavours to help the nation progress. She therefore entreated students to let honesty and hard work be their guiding principles.

The Headmaster of the school, Nana Osei Asiamah Albert said the academic performance of the school improves yearly. He added that last year for instance, the school scored 100 percent in the WASSCE as compared to previous years. He pointed out that the computer placement system was introduced with very good intentions but does not favour schools like Koase. The Headmaster said while the big schools get more than their expected quota, small schools do not even get half of the numbers they require. Nana Asiamah lamented that most of the few students who are sent to their schools by the Computer selection placement system fail to take up their admission this he said is indeed a source of worry to them. The Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo in a speech read for him said the youth in every country represent the major human resource potential that can contribute immensely to the development of the nation when given the opportunity. He continued that the youth constitute the driving force of society, the spirit of today and the hope for the future. Mr. Nyamekye-Marfo added that the youth are agents for social change and economic development and the ability of every country to unearth this readily available potential could determine how successful it becomes.