Huni Valley (W/R), July 13, GNA- A computer laboratory for the Huni Valley secondary School has been commissioned at the cost of GH( 12,000 (120 million cedis).
The centre is equipped with 28 computers and accessories and it's also fully networked.
Mr. Thomas K. Tandoh, headmaster of the school said at the commissioning ceremony on Thursday that the management of Goldfields Ghana Limited (GGL) supported the school with 10 computers and accessories, while a Bibiani based computer firm, Powersoft computer systems installed the equipments for the school. Mr. Tandoh said the computerisation of the school was in conformity with the new educational reforms, which are likely to begin in September this year.
He said the school was established in 1975 with 25 students in private houses but moved to its present site a year later. Mr. Tandoh said the school now has a student population of 839 made up of 421 girls and 418 boys.
He said the school was in need of additional accommodation for its teachers to enable the school to attract more teachers. Mr. Tandoh said the school, which was supposed to have at least 45 teachers presently has only 32 and this makes teaching extremely difficult for them.
He said the access roads to the school, headmaster's bungalow, administration and classrooms are in deplorable state and anytime it rains, movement on the school campus becomes difficult. Mr. Tandoh said the entire school gets flooded anytime it rained and appealed for assistance to rectify the situation. He said the school does not have a boy's dormitory and that management had converted a six-unit classroom block into dormitories to enable the school to accommodate the students.
Mr. Tandoh said notwithstanding these problems, the school has eight athletes in the squad that would represent the Western region at the National Schools and Colleges sports Festival at Koforidua in August. He said academically, the schools performance was commendable adding that all the 132 candidates presented for the WASSCE passed with 84 qualifying for tertiary institutions. He appealed to philanthropists and other individuals to support the school in its quest for higher academic excellence. 13 July 07
