Source: newsthemegh.com/Accra Metropolitan Assembly
The Education and Sports Sub-Committee of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has embarked on a two-day working visit to schools within the sub-metros to identify and address the multifaceted challenges impeding academic excellence and sporting development.
The committee comprising the education and sports director of the Assembly as well as Assembly Members toured 15 basic and secondary schools including Saint Mary’s Senior High School, Kaneshie Basic 3 JHS, Kaneshie Awudome 3 JHS, Kaneshie Kingsway Basic School among others.
Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Education and Sports, Hon. Theophilus Isaac Quaye in a brief interview after the tour outlined some of the obstacles hindering academic and sporting achievements in the schools as well as inadequate Ga teachers, limited access to learning materials and lack of sports facilities and equipment.
He emphasised the urgent need to address the challenges indicating that the committee will report the findings and recommendations to the Executive Committee (EXECO)of the Assembly for redress.
“it is the responsibility of this committee to promote academic excellence in the schools. We will make recommendations to the Assembly’s Executive Committee because we the Assembly Members are policy formulators. We will help to formulate policies that will bring lasting solutions to the challenges we have identified in the schools” he explained.
Mr Quaye asked stakeholders within the education and sporting sector to prioritize educational activities and projects as they tended to transform communities’ status quo.
He added that the committee was awaiting feedback from EXECO to finalize the recommendations for local policies to improve the schools’ conditions.
He indicated that measures and mechanisms were also being put in place to temporally improve the performance of students and infrastructure to foster academic excellence.
He entreated parents to invest in their children by ensuring that their basic and educational needs are met. He expressed appreciation to the teachers for their active role in educational excellence in the sub-metros.