‘Let's make holistic education our goal’
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Cape Coast, Professor Dora Edu-Buandoh, has asked stakeholders in education to assist students to develop their personal, intellectual, social and moral traits to benefit the entire society.
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At the 25th Anniversary and fifth Speech and Prize-giving Day celebration of Oguaa Senior High Technical School (OSTECH) in Cape Coast on Saturday, she said quality education should not be limited to efforts to secure good grades to move up to the next step of the education ladder.
Prof. Edu-Buandoh pointed out that when students specialised in learning how to answer past questions, they were able to pass well but they were unable to apply the memorised information to real-life situations, thus making them irrelevant in the society.
Quality education
She, therefore, advised Ghanaian students to take advantage of that quality education, which ensured the total development of the individual.
The event was on the theme: “Celebrating the 25th Milestone in Quality Education Delivery; A must for all stakeholders”.
Prof. Edu-Buandoh maintained that it was imperative for all stakeholders in education to work together to monitor the activities in the classrooms to secure a morally upright society in this contemporary world, where people had thrown away professional ethics and compromised on situations for personal gains and ideologies.
She asked stakeholders to take the issue of examination malpractices very seriously and put in place adequate measures to address the menace to avoid populating the nation with a corrupt working force.
She congratulated the school on the success chalked up within the 25 years of operation and encouraged the school’s authorities, old students, and the board, to give their widow’s mite to make OSTECH a citadel of quality education.
The Central Regional Director of Education, Mr Bartholomew Ofori, urged all stakeholders of education to contribute meaningfully to the development of the country’s education.
Gratitude
The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Anastasia Thompford Okyere, thanked the government, parent-teacher association, non-governmental organisations and corporate bodies that had helped them in the past years and called for continued assistance to develop the school.
She outlined some of the challenges facing the school as lack of accommodation for teachers, which had compelled the authorities to convert the trunk rooms of the dormitory to house some masters to monitor the students on campus.
Others, she said, were the lack of dormitory block for girls, ICT and laboratory facilities, water, poor roads and drainage system.
Mrs Okyere said though the school had consistently recorded improvement in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), last year’s results saw a decline in the performance from the previous years.
She gave an assurance that the management would work assiduously to improve upon the performance of students at the WASSCE in the coming years. — GNA
