12-07-2012
The 11th session of the Regional Best Teacher Award ceremony has ended at Bolgatanga with a call on the government through the Education Ministry to as a matter of concern consider increasing the intake quotas of the country’s Teacher Training Colleges. This has become necessary due to the yawning disparity between pupil teacher and pupil trained teacher ratio in our basic and junior high schools. Adherence will improve the quality of education at the pre-tertiary educational level as the desired quality cannot be achieved if we continue to have so many pupil teachers in the school system. The Upper East Regional Director of Education, Mr Paul Apanga who made the call implored government to expedite action on the matter since most teacher training colleges have enough vacuum to absorb more qualified applicants, but they do not have the mandate to do so. He cited St John Bosco’s Training College as an example, noting that though the school has the required facility and capacity of recruiting about 1,700 students; it is compelled to absorb only 280 applicants, which according to him is unfortunate. According to him several teacher training colleges across the country suffer the same fate but are helpless due to the quota system instituted across board. Mr. Apanga in the course of his request moreover charged the government to consider introducing the development of fee paying system in the country’s teacher training colleges of Education so that appreciable number of qualified SHS graduates that meet the admission criteria of the colleges but are not catered for through the government quota system be admitted by the colleges. To him, such individuals are interested in the profession and have the ability of settling the payment of their training, adding that after training they can be recruited by the GES through quotas released each year and given licensed and registration numbers to occupy the empty classrooms in our schools. In his later submission, Mr Apanga congratulated the award winners for their exemplary qualities and appealed to RCC and the Assemblies to help institute such award schemes in their respective districts to motivate and inspire qualified teachers to their districts. In reaction to the appeal made, the Upper East Regional minister, Mark Woyongo who was the guest of honour pledged to forward some of the concerns to his colleagues for redress in the next Regional Ministers Conference to be held in Takoradi this year. He also underscored moves by the government to broaden the scope of award to motivate teachers. Teaching and non-teaching staff that distinguished themselves in various forms of disciplines were awarded for their dedicated service. Prizes ranging from 20 inch television sets, double door refrigerators and burner gas cooker were presenters to the awardees. The award winners were also presented with certificate of honor to appreciate their effort. Mr Augustine Atanga on behalf of the awardees implored teachers to put up their best since the quality of human resource will determine the ability of students in ensuring massive reduction in poverty.
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The 11th session of the Regional Best Teacher Award ceremony has ended at Bolgatanga with a call on the government through the Education Ministry to as a matter of concern consider increasing the intake quotas of the country’s Teacher Training Colleges. This has become necessary due to the yawning disparity between pupil teacher and pupil trained teacher ratio in our basic and junior high schools. Adherence will improve the quality of education at the pre-tertiary educational level as the desired quality cannot be achieved if we continue to have so many pupil teachers in the school system. The Upper East Regional Director of Education, Mr Paul Apanga who made the call implored government to expedite action on the matter since most teacher training colleges have enough vacuum to absorb more qualified applicants, but they do not have the mandate to do so. He cited St John Bosco’s Training College as an example, noting that though the school has the required facility and capacity of recruiting about 1,700 students; it is compelled to absorb only 280 applicants, which according to him is unfortunate. According to him several teacher training colleges across the country suffer the same fate but are helpless due to the quota system instituted across board. Mr. Apanga in the course of his request moreover charged the government to consider introducing the development of fee paying system in the country’s teacher training colleges of Education so that appreciable number of qualified SHS graduates that meet the admission criteria of the colleges but are not catered for through the government quota system be admitted by the colleges. To him, such individuals are interested in the profession and have the ability of settling the payment of their training, adding that after training they can be recruited by the GES through quotas released each year and given licensed and registration numbers to occupy the empty classrooms in our schools. In his later submission, Mr Apanga congratulated the award winners for their exemplary qualities and appealed to RCC and the Assemblies to help institute such award schemes in their respective districts to motivate and inspire qualified teachers to their districts. In reaction to the appeal made, the Upper East Regional minister, Mark Woyongo who was the guest of honour pledged to forward some of the concerns to his colleagues for redress in the next Regional Ministers Conference to be held in Takoradi this year. He also underscored moves by the government to broaden the scope of award to motivate teachers. Teaching and non-teaching staff that distinguished themselves in various forms of disciplines were awarded for their dedicated service. Prizes ranging from 20 inch television sets, double door refrigerators and burner gas cooker were presenters to the awardees. The award winners were also presented with certificate of honor to appreciate their effort. Mr Augustine Atanga on behalf of the awardees implored teachers to put up their best since the quality of human resource will determine the ability of students in ensuring massive reduction in poverty.
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