Govt not wholly running mission schools -Manager

New Edubiase (Ash), March 17, GNA- The government has not taken complete ownership of mission schools and wholly running them, Mr Dave Anane Druyeh, Ashanti Regional Manager of Catholic Schools has stated. He said what was happening presently was that the government was running the mission schools in partnership with the various missions. Speaking at the inauguration of the New Edubiase branch of the Association of Catholic Teachers at the weekend, Mr Druyeh explained that if the government had completely taken over the running of mission schools, there would have been no manager's in-charge of mission schools.

The Regional manager said what was happening with supervision was that the local managers of Catholic schools who are the Parish Priests hardly have time to visit the schools.

He explained that the missions had the mandate to ask for the transfer of a teacher or teachers from a mission school and request for teachers to mission schools.

Mr Druyeh therefore, called on missions to support the development of their schools and assist the teachers, who teach in the schools and also asked teachers to see their work as more as a vocation than a profession.

He asked stakeholders in education to take the welfare of teachers seriously, since they were the implementers of educational policies, which affect their children and wards.

Mr Kirk Kwame Okyere, secretary of the New Edubiase branch of the association asked the Adansi East district assembly to sponsor more teacher trainees to enable the district have the complements of enough trained teachers.

The Rev. Father Owusu Afriyie, New Edubiase parish priest urged teachers to show love and concern for their pupils and also advised parents to provide their wards with their educational needs, stressing that education was the key to success and development.