‘Stakeholders need to collaborate to promote quality education’
Speakers at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Ebenezer Senior High School have stressed the need for effective collaboration among stakeholders to promote quality education in the country.
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In separate remarks, they called for increased investment in educational infrastructure through public private partnerships (PPP).
The event, which was held on the school’s premises last Saturday, brought together past and present students, parents, heads of second cycle institutions, officers of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and a section of the public.
It was on the theme “Achieving Excellence in Education: The Role of Stakeholders.”
Collaboration
An old student (a Padua 1982) and a Human Resource Practitioner, Mr Marterson Armah, observed that to achieve educational excellence, it was important for stakeholders to set realistic targets in a collaborative manner and work towards those objectives.
“The school management ought to establish a good rapport with the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), the traditional authorities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), especially in the provision of education infrastructure,” he added.
He said the government was handicapped in providing the infrastructure needed in all educational institutions and urged PTAs to play a critical role to bridge the gap.
He underscored the need for the management of second cycle institutions to maintain a cordial relationship with past students to expand their infrastructure.
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Shared responsibility
In her report, the Headmistress of the school, Mrs Elizabeth Addo, lauded the pivotal role the PTA and past students had played to improve infrastructure in the school.
She observed that education was a shared responsibility for which reason she urged parents to create a conducive environment for their children to learn at home to complement the efforts of teachers.
Mrs Addo called on the government, corporate bodies and philanthropists to come up with more scholarship schemes to support brilliant needy students.
She appealed to the government to help the school put up a dining hall and an 18-unit staff accommodation so that the teachers would be housed on the school compound.
That, she said, would help to improve academic performance and boost discipline among students.
Other speakers at the event urged the students to be disciplined and stay away from negative attitudes such as sexual misconduct, truancy, rioting and drug use, since such practices could ruin their lives.
Background
Mr Robert Teiko Aryee founded the Ebenezer Secondary School in Accra 75 years ago, not for profit or fame, but to see that hundreds of young children in deprived areas in Accra would get access to secondary education.
With the dream to educate the people of Accra and its neighbouring communities, he started the school in a small room at Adedenkpo, near the Timber Market on the Hanson Road in Accra.
The school started with a primary section, with assistance from his cousin, Mr E.A. Otoo. Soon his class sizes began to increase and it became necessary to look for a bigger place.
The school was expanded to include a middle and secondary school when a larger piece of land was secured at Mamprobi in the Accra West District.