NFED organizes seminar for Street Academy Teachers

Accra, Feb.28, GNA - The Non-Formal Education Department (NFED) of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has designed programmes to ensure that children of school-going age who, by one reason or the other, find themselves in informal educational institutions are integrated into the formal system as soon as possible. Mr. George Bentil, Deputy Director of Education in the Department said in fulfilment of that objective, the NFED would support the training of teachers

in the informal sector in order to enhance their work and accelerate the reintegration process.

The Deputy Director was speaking at the closing ceremony of a one-week in-service training course in English Literacy for 25 teachers of the Cultural and Sports Academy for Street Children (Street Academy) held at the Accountant General's Training School at Dansoman in Accra on Friday. He said trainers in the non-formal sector must assisted to enhance their teaching skills so that they could succeed in teaching the pupils how to read, write, calculate and enhance what they find themselves doing.

Mr Bentil said apart from the provision of logistics and teaching aids to facilitate the retraining programme, the NFED also monitors what they do so that they do not deviate from the set objectives. The Deputy Director praised the staff and management of the Street Academy for their commitment to the plight of deprived children and hoped they would use the skill they had acquired at the seminar to improve upon their delivery.

Mr. Ataa Lartey, Director of the Street Academy said the institution would only improve if many more organizations come forward to assist them in one form or the other.

He thanked the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), KAB Government Consult, an Accra NGO and NFED for supporting the programme.