St Augustine’s College commended for discipline
The Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs of the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Kweku Osam, has commended the St Augustine’s College in Cape Coast for inculcating high moral values and discipline in students to enable them to excel in all their endeavours.
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According to Prof. Osam, rather than concentrating solely on how to pass examinations, values of discipline and hard work should form an integral part of all educational institutions.
Prof. Osam said this at the 84th Speech and Prize-giving Day of the St Augustine’s College in Cape Coast.
“St Augustine’s does not only teach students how to pass their examinations, it inculcates the spirit of discipline and hard work in them,” he said.
Prof. Osam spoke on the theme: “Sustaining the legacy and dignity of our alma mater, the role of the alumni.”
He urged the alumni of the St Augustine’s College to be ambassadors of the college.
He said the name of the college was a brand in the country’s second cycle education and that the old students must find different and new ways of maintaining and upholding the image of the college.
Prof. Osam further asked the alumni to give back to the college in the areas of infrastructure, mentoring and services provision.
The Headmaster of the College, Mr Joseph Connel, expressed worry about the fact that some parents instructed their children not to participate in extra curricula activities of the college, saying that made some students in the college shun extra curricula activities such as sports, drama, music and debates.
Mr Connel added that the St Augustine’s College provided holistic education for its students, ensuring that all talents and potentials were properly harnessed and nurtured.
The 1988 year-group of the college handed over a renovated two-storey building to the school after the ceremony.
The facility was renovated at a cost of GH¢60,000.
The building, which was last renovated when the college celebrated its golden jubilee anniversary, was in a very deplorable state.