Staff bungalow for Accra High School commissioned

Accra, March 26, GNA - Sheikh I.C Quaye, Greater Accra Regional Minister on Wednesday inaugurated an eight-unit staff bungalow worth 600,000 Ghana cedis for the Accra High School to address its accommodation needs. = The bungalow, financed with the Ghana Education Trust Fund is the first to be inaugurated out of three schools selected to benefit in the Greater Accra.

The two other beneficiaries: Odorgonno Senior High School in Accra and Ghanata Senior High School at Dodowa are yet to commission theirs. At the ceremony, Sheikh Quaye said the support was part of numerous interventions made by government since 2001 to ensure improved infrastructure to enhance quality education.

He said government realized that improving infrastructure for educational institutions were crucial to produce the human resource base needed for a vibrant economic take off. The Grater Accra Regional Minister urged tutors who would benefit from the facility to use the opportunity to improve their relations with students in a way that would translate into improved academic performance. Sheikh Quaye urged them to maintain the facility well. Mr Aaron K. Badzi, Acting Headmaster of the school commended government for the support, saying, "it would go a long way to address the accommodation needs of the teachers". He stated that the staff who had served for longer years, dedicated to work and engaged in all extra curricula activities would have an advantage to occupy the flats. On problems facing the school, Mr Badzi said the school with a student population of 1,400 and a staff strength of 70 did not have a canteen, thus students have to stand and take their lunch anytime the Assembly Hall used as an substitute was occupied for other programmes. The acting Headmaster also appealed to government to provide the school with a bus, since transporting students in commercial vehicles was not always safe. Mrs. Ernestina Anim, Regional Director of Education Greater Accra, in a speech read on her behalf asked government to extend the support to cover all 40 senior high schools in the region and provide hostel facilities to day students.