The Managing Director of the Volta River Authority International School Limited (VISL), Eric Mensah Bonsu, has advised students in pre-tertiary institutions to validate any information they get in any media space before they consume or use it.
He said that since schools would equip them with media technology skills, there was a need to validate the information they receive.
Mr Bonsu said this at the 13th Speech and Prize-giving Day and 12th Graduation of the VISL at Akuse in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region.
It was on the theme: “Equipping Young Learners with the Requisite Skills to Navigate Today’s World of Information Overload”.
The Deputy Chief Executive (Services) of VRA, Samuel Fletcher, whose address was read on his behalf, lauded the school for both academic and co-curricular activities.
He said the management of VRA would continue to support the development of co-curricular activities in the school to balance academic work with co-curricular activities.
The Supervisor of the Akuse International School, Benjamin Wuller, in his welcome address, charged both the graduating and the continuing students to hold dearly to the values the school had inculcated in them.
The acting headmistress of the school, Gladys Appiah, noted that with the advent of modern technology and free flow of information, among other things, life had become easier.
Mrs Appiah lauded the old students who recently supported the school in diverse ways, adding that “Your response to our needs aligns with the adage that ‘a good child remembers the breast that fed him’.”
The Lower Manya Krobo Municipality Director of Education, Samuel Kwesi Tettey, said young people must learn how to use information in social media, saying that “Not everything deserves your time”.
The outgoing School Prefect, Nicholas Antwi Lartey Baidoo, said the school needed vital improvements such as play equipment, classrooms, CCTV cameras and refurbishment of the Science Laboratory, Home Economics Department and the Pre-Technical Workshop to enhance academic work.
Prizes were awarded to deserving pupils and students from kindergarten to the junior high school.
