Academic excellence depends on discipline -Minister

Kumasi, March 4, GNA- Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, Ashanti Regional Minister, has stated that there is no educational institution that can achieve excellence in its academic pursuits if its students are rude, rowdy and indiscipline.

He said it is therefore very important for school to attach equal importance to inculcating in students attributes of discipline just like they do for academic work.

Mr Boafo made the statement at a sod-cutting ceremony in Kumasi on Wednesday for commencement of work on two separate dormitory blocks for the Mmofraturo Girls Secondary School.

The school's Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) is funding one of the dormitory blocks, while the other is being executed by the Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church.

The Regional Minister advised students to reciprocate the investments being made by their parents in education by taking their studies seriously.

Mr Boafo pledged to provide the school with a bus to help ease the transportation problem facing it.

He also pledged the government's commitment to provide the school with either a classroom block or a bungalow for the headmistress. Mr J.R. Nketiah, the PTA chairman, said the decision of the association to provide the project was as a result of the students being housed in temporary school structures.

"The student-girls are presently putting up in the school's assembly hall and science block and these facilities will soon be taken away to be used for the roles for which they were put up", he noted. Miss Sabina Ama Grant, the headmistress, complained about the lack of accommodation for the head of the school and tutors and appealed for assistance from the government.