The Member of Parliament for New Juaben South, Micheal Okyere Baafi, has distributed 51 computers and learning materials to three basic schools in Koforidua.
The beneficiary schools are Agavenya R/C JHS, Koforidua M/A Basic School at Sempomiase, and AME Zion Basic School at Anlo Town.
The distribution of the computers was in strategic partnership with Adwoa Akyamaa Foundation ,founded by himself.
All basic schools in the Municipality are expected to benefit from this educational intervention.
Moreover, all teachers in the Municipality will also be provided with a laptop each through the MP’s initiative dubbed “One Teacher One Laptop Policy”.
Micheal Okyere Baafi said, as part of efforts to boost the Study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) among students, a STEM conference will be held in Koforidua.
Additionally, vacation classes will also be organized for JHS students. These are expected to address the poor academic performance of students in New Juaben South Municipality.
“The greatest asset of every nation impinges exclusively on investment in human capital. In my quest to build human capital through quality education, I donated computers and learning materials worth over thirty thousand Ghana cedis (through my NGO, Adwoa Akyamaa Foundation) to three basic schools in my constituency on 17th May 2021.”
“I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Mr Wadei for his immense support. In the coming days, I intend to introduce one teacher, one laptop policy paralleled with vacation classes for the schools in New Juaben South My appreciation goes to Mr Victor de-Graft Etsison, the Municipal Director of Education for New Juaben South and his management team, who received the items on behalf of the schools”. He said.
Poor BECE Performance.
Key players in the education sector have already expressed concern about the sharp decline in quality of education at the basic school level in New Juaben South Municipality.
Analysis of the performance of candidates in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the period covering the last six years shows a worrying trend of consistent abysmal performances particularly those in public basic schools.
The statistics show that no candidate in public basic school in the municipality scored an aggregate of six (6) during the period under review. Only a handful of candidates presented during the period scored between aggregate seven (7) and fifteen (15).
The majority of the candidates scored between aggregate 25 and 36 with some scoring 40 and above.“you realized that performance is very low. Basically, their grades range from 6 to 9 in the various subjects”. The Municipal Education Director Victor Degraft Etsison said.
The New Juaben South Municipal Director of Education Victor Degraft Etsison said the situation is “quite alarming and needs urgent intervention to address it because New Juaben South in the Eastern Regional capital this poor academic performance must not happen here “.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
