Amera, a city in Holland, is to support the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) in its educational development initiatives with 30,000 Euros under an exchange programme.
Mr Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, who announced this, said the funds when received would be channelled into the development and provision of various educational facilities for the Atonsu M/A Primary and Junior Secondary School and other schools in the Metropolis.
Mr Jumah was addressing a meeting of the Kumasi Metropolitan Education Oversight Committee last Tuesday that discussed and analysed the 2003 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results. Circuit Supervisors, School Proprietors, Regional Managers of Educational Units and Assembly Members attended the meeting. He said the KMA would also commit about 700 million cedis into the construction of more than 41 classroom blocks next year.
Mr Jumah urged administrators of schools and teachers to justify the investments being made by the KMA in the development of schools by also resolving to give of their best to the children.
Mrs Gladys Kwapong, out-going Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education, lauded the KMA for its practical concern for making quality education more accessible to children in the Metropolis. She said the injection of the 700 million cedis into the construction of 41 school blocks next year was ample evidence of the genuine concern the KMA had for development of education.
