Atwima Nwabiagya resources education directorate
The Atwima Nwabiagya District Assembly in the Ashanti Region has presented education materials to the district directorate of education to support teaching and learning.
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The materials, made up of 1,000 copies of teachers’ lesson notebooks and 200 boxes of chalk and costing GH¢18, 000.00, are to be given to teachers at the various basic schools in the district.
At a presentation ceremony at Nkawie, the district capital, the Atwima Nwabiagya District Chief Executive (DCE), Nana Asare Bediako, said apart from the teachers’ lesson notebooks and chalks, the assembly would continue to supply dual and mono desks to schools in the district.
Government’s social intervention
The DCE indicated that the number of basic schools that benefitted from government’s social intervention, such as the School Feeding Programme (SFP), increased from 12,550 pupils in 24 schools to 25,769 pupils in 54 schools.
He said the assembly had built a number of classroom blocks to accommodate the increasing number of pupils in the various basic schools, and had also supplied the schools with laptop computers, adding that a number of school blocks currently under construction would be provided with computer laboratories, libraries and staff rooms.
Nana Bediako announced that the assembly also intended to reward four persons with disability (PWDs), who were teachers, for their contribution to education in the area.
He said he had personally instituted an award scheme to reward the PWDs in the teaching field to serve as a shining example for others.
The teachers are Mr Peter Kwabena Osei (Nkoran DA JHS), Mr Adu Gyamfi (Akyiase Methodist JHS), Duray Joan (Abuakwa DA JHS “C”) and Mabel Settor (Abuakwa DA JHS “A”).
Advice to teachers and parents
The DCE advised teachers and parents in the district to educate schoolchildren on HIV and AIDS disease, and also encourage the children, especially the girls, to concentrate on their studies and avoid anti-social behaviours that would mar their academic career.
Commendation
He commended the District Director of Education, Madam Mary Owusu Achiaw, and the individual teachers for exhibiting discipline and approaching their work with seriousness, and expressed the hope that quality education would be achieved with continuous collaboration between the education directorate and the assembly.