Winneba (C/R), - 11 June The University College of Education (UCEW), Winneba, is to extend its research programme on reading in basic schools to other districts to enable more school children to benefit from the scheme. Prof. Nicholas K. Pecku, Principal of the UCEW, said this when he commissioned a new reading room for the University Primary School, popularly called Advanced Demonstration School, at Winneba yesterday. The Overseas Development Administration (now Department for International Development) and Plan International, an NGO, have spent more than 18 million cedis on the programme which covers 10 schools in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District. The project funded by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency is to find out obstacles which hinder proper reading among children in primary and junior secondary schools and find solutions to them. Prof Pecku said the University will do everything possible to ensure that the programme initiated by the English Department, achieves its goal. Mr Morris K. Mensah, Headmaster of the Advanced Primary and Junior Secondary School, expressed appreciation to the UCEW, the ODA, Plan International and other NGO's and individuals for their contribution to the programme and called on school children outside Winneba area to take advantage of it. He appealed to the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Assembly, traditional councils in the district and well-to-do citizens in the area to help provide more reading materials and furniture and to help extend electricity to the school.
Winneba (C/R), - 11 June The University College of Education (UCEW), Winneba, is to extend its research programme on reading in basic schools to other districts to enable more school children to benefit from the scheme. Prof. Nicholas K. Pecku, Principal of the UCEW, said this when he commissioned a new reading room for the University Primary School, popularly called Advanced Demonstration School, at Winneba yesterday. The Overseas Development Administration (now Department for International Development) and Plan International, an NGO, have spent more than 18 million cedis on the programme which covers 10 schools in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District. The project funded by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency is to find out obstacles which hinder proper reading among children in primary and junior secondary schools and find solutions to them. Prof Pecku said the University will do everything possible to ensure that the programme initiated by the English Department, achieves its goal. Mr Morris K. Mensah, Headmaster of the Advanced Primary and Junior Secondary School, expressed appreciation to the UCEW, the ODA, Plan International and other NGO's and individuals for their contribution to the programme and called on school children outside Winneba area to take advantage of it. He appealed to the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Assembly, traditional councils in the district and well-to-do citizens in the area to help provide more reading materials and furniture and to help extend electricity to the school.
