Strive for quality education : D-G urges educational workers
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob Kor Aaworb-Nang, has urged stakeholders in the education sector to resolve to work harder for the provision of “quality education for our children”.
“As we rejoice and celebrate this wonderful season of New Year, let our resolution be how best to contribute our quota to quality education for our children.
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“In doing this, we should do away with teacher absenteeism, lateness, laziness, drunkenness and other social vices which are formidable obstacles to sound upbringing,” he said in his New Year message to Ghanaians.
Work harder in 2016
Mr Aaworb-Nang also called on all stakeholders in education, development partners “and our illustrious sons and daughters of our beloved country” not to rest on their laurels but be poised to make the years ahead better and more fulfilling than the previous ones.
“As we enter the New Year, we are sure to encounter some setbacks. On such occasions, we should count our modest successes and blessings of the previous year and put our failures behind us,” he said.
“I wish, on behalf of the management and the entire staff of the GES, to convey to all educational workers, our gallant teachers, all stakeholders and teacher unions the season’s greatest felicitations and blessings,” he added.
Mr Aaworb-Nang acknowledged the qualities and professional competence those in the educational sector had exhibited over the past year in the face of the difficulties and challenges that confronted the sector.
He, however, said there was still room for improvement and urged them not to be complacent in the discharge of their duties.
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Nation builders
The director-general said as educators and nation builders, they had a collective responsibility in their quest to provide a solid foundation for the future leaders and so they needed to go the extra mile to impart noble virtues, skills and knowledge to the children, so that when they grew up they would not depart from the rich culture of the nation.