Professor Dora Edu-Buandoh, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Cape Coast, has said students should be assisted by stakeholders in education to develop their personal, intellectual, social and moral traits to benefit the entire society.
Prof. Edu-Buandoh, who was speaking at the 25th Anniversary and fifth Speech and Prize-Giving Day Celebration of Oguaa Senior High Technical School in Cape Coast, said quality education should not be limited to efforts in securing good grades to move on to the next rung on the educational ladder.
It was the theme: “Celebrating the 25th Milestone in Quality Education Delivery; A must for all stakeholders ”, on Saturday.
She said that when students specialised in learning how to answer the past questions of set examinations, 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.
It was imperative, therefore, she said, 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.
Prof. Edu-Buandoh advised Ghanaian students to avail themselves for that quality education, which ensured the total development of the individual.
She congratulated the school for the success chalked within the 25 years and encouraged its school 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 educational development of the country.
Mrs. Anastasia Thompford Okyere, the headmistress of the School, thanked the Government, PTA, NGOs and some 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 take care of the students on campus.
Others , she said, were the lack of dormitory block for girls, ICT and laboratory complex, water, and poor road and drainage system.
Mrs. Okyere said though the school had consistently recorded improvement in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), last year’s results saw a decline in the performance from the previous years.
She gave the assurance that the management would work assiduously to improve upon the performance of students at the WASSCE in the coming years.
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