Educational reform is to enhance human resource development

Nkwatia-Kwahu, Nov. 06, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor last weekend said the educational reform programme would enhance the nation's human resource development.

He said the reforms would make education more relevant and equip the citizenry with the requisite knowledge, skills and competence in the emerging global community.


President Kufuor made the observation in an address read on his behalf by Mr Kwadwo Affram Asiedu, Eastern Regional Minister, at a durbar to climax the Golden Jubilee Anniversary Celebration and Speech and Prize Giving Day of St. Peter's Senior High School at Nkwatia-Kwahu in the Eastern Region.


He noted that government viewed education as a worthy investment and the cornerstone of its development agenda and therefore instituted the capitation grant, school feeding programme, supply of free textbooks to pupils, establishment of a model SHS in every metropolitan, municipal and district as well as the provision of computers for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) studies in basic schools. President Kufuor pledged the government's commitment to improve on education, health and road infrastructure and provision of potable water in Kwahu.

Most Reverend Charles Palmer Buckle, Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, speaking on the theme for the celebration, "50 years of Quality Catholic Education" said involvement of the Catholic Church in formal and informal education was to transform the people to acquire the needed knowledge and wisdom to contribute towards the development of society. He said to acquire the relevant intellectual and academic skills for successful development, children should co-operate with their parents and teachers as their role models to enhance their development. Mr David Affram, Headmaster of the school, said it was established by the Society for the Divine Word (SVD) and Nkwatia community in 1957. He said it had trained many intellectuals and the enrolment had increased to about 1,000 but existing infrastructure could not cope with the increase in population therefore, the school's Board of Governors had to reduce it.


Mr Affram appealed to the Board of Directors of Ghana Education Trust Fund GETFund, Ministry of Education, Science and Sports and Kwahu South District Assembly for assistance to rehabilitate the school's main dormitory block, construct an additional one, an administration block and an assembly hall to befit status of the school. He stressed the need to construct more staff bungalows, a library, provision of a school bus and more computers to enhance effective teaching and learning.