258 pass out at Offinso College of Education
The government’s decision to elevate training colleges to tertiary status and redesign them as colleges of education is aimed at training more qualified professional teachers, the Administrator of the Colleges of Education Secretariat, Mr S. W. K. Tsadidey, has said.
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That, he added, was to get the right calibre of professionals to teach at the basic level, which was the most important of all the stages in the educational system.
Mr Tsadidey, who said this at the seventh congregation of the Offinso College of Education in the Ashanti Region, added that the national expectation was that teachers would help to stop the decline in basic education.
In all, 258 students graduated after a three-year diploma course in basic education. Twenty of the graduates obtained second class upper; 83 second class lower, 132 had third class, while 23 passed.
Mr Tsadidey appealed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to empower headteachers to run their schools “instead of doing things that undermine their authority, to the extent that deviant teachers seem to have more backing from district offices.”
He called on the various teacher associations to be bold enough to call their erring members to order to erode the perception that those associations existed only to battle for improved conditions of service for their members and to defend them, even against the obviously indefensible.
Welcoming the guests, the Principal of the college, Mr Lloyd Alexander Djangmah, mentioned some of the challenges facing the College as lack of funds for the completion of the 1,600-capacity auditorium being funded by the GETFund and the need to expand the dining hall to accommodate more students.
He expressed his appreciation to the Offinsohene, Nana Wiafe Akenten III, for donating 10 computers and 100 mono-tables and chairs to boost teaching and learning at the college.
