St Francis College of Education second congregation held at Hohoe
Three hundred and sixteen graduates have passed out after undergoing a four-year Bachelor of Education Degree programme at the St Francis College of Education (FRANCO), Hohoe, in the Volta Region.
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They are made up of 199 males, constituting 63 per cent, and 117 females.The ceremony, on the theme, “Training STEM-based teachers in a technology driven environment for the 21st Century learners,” brought together past principals, relatives, politicians and well wishers of the graduates.
Out of the 316 graduates presented, 27 of them, including five females, obtained First Class degrees, 205 students had Second Class Upper, and 73 obtained Second Degree Lower degrees.
There were 11 students who had Third Class and the institute recorded no Pass. Nine students were awarded for their meritorious achievements. Each of them received various prizes, including a certificate and citation.
They included the Overall Best graduating student with a First Class, Dodzi Kutordzor, who took home a cash prize of GH¢3,000, a citation and certificate of excellence. Ernest Lenugo, who emerged the best graduating student in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), received a Laptop Notebook Computer donated by the Transforming Teaching, Education and Learning (I-TEL).
In a speech read on behalf of the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, by the Director-General of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Yayra Drakadzie, the Minister commended the graduates for undergoing their course of study without any mishap.
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He noted that now that they were going into the classrooms to teach, the newly-trained must know that the government was doing its best to equip the various schools with the necessary facilities and logistics to ensure a smooth teaching and learning environment.
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Dr Osei Adutwum said the government was in effect rolling out the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) institutions to enhance knowledge of science and technology to produce students who would be fit to enter the job market.
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That, he said, would enable them to use their newly acquired knowledge and expertise to improve the lots of their people. Speaking on the theme, the immediate former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Professor Mawutor Avoke, said the STEM had assumed an increasingly prominent role in the global economy, and as such teachers should embrace it to ensure that the country was not marginalised and left behind.
Prof Avoke said the need for effective policies for education and training in science and technology was to produce researchers to create a suitable environment with the aim of ensuring that environmental issues would form the basis of our daily lives for development.
The Principal of FRANCO, Dr Adwoa Kwegyiriba, said the college offered two main programmes, namely primary and junior high school educational degrees.
Dr Kwegyiriba advised the students to endeavour to specialise in their fields of study for a Masters certificate at any of the universities. She said the college had satisfied all the necessary requirements for the award of the education degree.