Amansie Central community day school to be completed soon
The Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has assured the people of Jacobu and its neighbouring communities that the ongoing community day school project will soon be completed to ease the plight of the people in securing admission.
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She said the government was aware of the inconvenience people had to go though to acquire knowledge, especially in the rural areas, adding that it was in view of this that the government was doing its best to ensure that "we have the best educational system that will serve as a reference point to countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world".
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang gave the assurance in a speech read on her behalf by Mrs Mary Owusu Achiaw, the Ashanti Regional Director of Education, at the first Speech and Prize-giving Day and Silver Jubilee celebration of the Jacobu Senior High Technical School (JASTECH) last Friday.
With a student population of 1,024, JASTECH is still the only senior high school in the Amansie Central District.
Educational projects
The Education Minister said JASTECH was among schools that had benefited from the Secondary Education Improvement Project (SEIP), an intervention programme aimed at improving the infrastructure and performance of schools.
According to her, the government had introduced the Progressive Free Senior High School Programme for Day Students (PFSHSDS) which is to make secondary education accessible without financial burden through progressive absorption of identified fee items paid by parents.
She said to help reduce the money spent on utilities, the government, through the district assembly, had constructed a merchandised borehole for the school.
Challenges
Speaking on the theme: “Challenges of a senior high technical school in a deprived community”, the Headmaster of the school, Mr Francis Yao Agorsor, said a major challenge confronting the school was encroachment and galamsey operations in the area.
He added that the lack of a fence around the school was also making it difficult for the management of the school to monitor the movement of students.
Mr Agorsor said the school lacked a suitable library to match the increasing number of students, adding that books in the library were obsolete for modern-day information and knowledge acquisition.
He appealed to the government to, as matter of urgency, construct a sick bay to provide prompt first aid for the students.