Prez Mahama inaugurates Community SHS at Kwahu-Fodoa

President John Dramani Mahama last Wednesday inaugurated the Kwahu-Fodoa Community Day Senior High School (SHS) with an assurance that the government will complete all the remaining community day schools under construction.

So far, 42 of the 200 Community SHS have been completed while others are at various stages of construction.

The Kwahu-Fodoa Community SHS is the third of the 12 earmarked for the Eastern Region. 

Inaugurating the school as part of his four-day campaign tour of the Eastern Region, President Mahama announced that 60 of the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools would be converted into technical and vocational schools.

Those 60 schools, he explained, would seek to produce the technical and vocational human resource for the nation's industries, hospitals, schools and other institutions.

Support for schools

President Mahama said all the schools would be provided with buses and other logistics to enhance academic work.

He stressed the need for the communities to take advantage of the schools to educate their children and wards and also support the management of the schools to make them vibrant and beneficial to the students.

"The government has done all these for you and the children and provided the facilities with the needed ancillaries that would make teaching and learning very easy; all that the government needs is for students to take their studies very seriously," he added.

Commitment

President Mahama said the 42 completed Community SHSs had begun admitting students.

He described the academic performance of this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidates as unprecedented in the history of the country's education despite the fact that there was no examination leakage.

He said more than 3,000 pupils who sat for the 2016 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) recorded raw scores of 500.

That, he explained, was an indication that something peculiar was being done by the government and school authorities to improve education in the country.

Appeal

The acting Paramount Chief of the Kwahu Traditional Area, Nana Asiedu Agyeman III, expressed appreciation to the President and also appealed to the government to rehabilitate a number of bad roads in the Kwahu area.