UCC Guidance and Counselling Department supports quality education
The Department of Guidance and Counselling of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has adopted the Mensah Sarbah Basic School in Cape Coast to support it to enhance quality teaching and learning.
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The department, among others, would work with the management of the school to provide academic and personal social interventions to students to improve their academics, which will eventually reflect positively in their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results.
As part of the interventions for the school, the department, in collaboration with Operation Christmas Child, popularly known as ‘Samaritan Purse’, has held an academic fair at Savoy down to sensitise the community to the need to continue to make their children’s education a priority.
They also distributed gifts to the students to serve as a motivation for effective learning and also for the students to use the educational materials, including exercise books, pens, pencils, erasers, calculators, crayons, etc. in the boxes, for their academic work.
There were also cultural dance displays and recitals. The school serves most of the coastal suburbs of Cape Coast, including Savoy, Brofoyedur, Idan and Amoakofoa.
School authorities suggest enrolment figures and the pass rate of the Basic Education Certificate Examinations could be far better if relevant stakeholders worked together consciously towards advancing teaching and learning in the school.
In his remarks, the Provost of the College of Education, Prof. Ernest Kofi Davies, said it was unacceptable that Cape Coast, which saw the beginning of formal education, should struggle to get its young people to stay in school.
“The Kwegyir Aggreys and the Mensah Sarbahs were all from around here and it is important to reignite our interest in education,” he said, adding that to achieve quality education, all stakeholders must actively play their roles.
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He advised parents to provide their children with the relevant study materials to promote quality learning. He said an educated individual had a greater chance and ability to change his fortunes and that of his family and community for the better.
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He also advised the pupils to take advantage of the free senior high school (SHS) programme to pursue higher education after junior high school (JHS), saying there were also scholarship opportunities to make higher education possible.
The Regional Director of Education, Emmanuel Essuman, in a statement read on his behalf, stated that interventions were to promote education for all and urged other stakeholders to maximise the opportunities created.
The Coordinator of the programme, Dr Sylvia Eyiah-Bediako, indicated that the adoption of the school was to help improve enrolment through community engagements and enhancing parental support for the pupils and teachers.
The Head of the Guidance and Counselling Department of UCC, Dr Sylvia Ocansey, said the department was committed to positively impacting the communities through quality education.