Education Ministry fetes award winners
The Ministry of Education has feted the President’s Independence Day award winners.
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The event, attended by parents, school heads and teachers of the winners, is held annually to create a platform for the award winners, parents, school heads and officials of the ministry to fraternise.
At the ceremony at the World Trade Centre in Accra, the Minister of Education, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman, advised society to take good care of children and support them to grow as responsible adults.
According to her, every child, no matter his or her status, must be taken good care of and given the needed support to take his or her rightful place in society. She added: “We cannot afford to fail the children...we need to take care of them now.”
Quality education
Prof. Opoku-Agyeman said the ministry was committed to quality education and pointed out that it needed everyone to partner it in the delivery of education.
She said it was not enough for quality education to be concentrated in few places; hence, the need to ensure quality education in both private and public educational institutions, especially at the basic level, for the growth and development of the child.
“We need parents, we need teachers, we need opinion leaders, municipal, metropolitan and district directors of the education, religious bodies and municipal, metropolitan and district chief executives. Education is everybody’s business and we need to take it as seriously as we can,” she said.
Prof. Opoku-Agyeman said if some children were left behind, “we leave our own future behind.”
Educational system
She said all was not lost in the country’s educational sector, and that Ghana had a strong and a vibrant educational system.
Prof. Opoku-Agyeman thanked the teachers of the award winners and added that although a lot of them were pulling their weight, a few of them needed help “in coming to the same level as other teachers.”
Award winners
Turning her attention to the award winners, she reminded them of the need to study hard to move higher on the academic ladder, adding that they should not allow themselves to be influenced by peer pressure.
“The choice is in your hands,” she said, and urged them not to forget that it was God that had brought them to where they now found themselves.
Some parents called on other parents to support teachers in moulding their children.