Consider education as investment — Okere MP
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Okere, Mr Dan Botwe, has appealed to parents to consider the education of their children as an investment and support them to achieve higher academic laurels.
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He said there was the need for both parents and the government to invest more at the basic level of education to provide proper foundation for pupils.
Mr Botwe, who is also the Minority Chief Whip in Parliament, said that at Adukrom during the opening of a week-long vacation classes he was organising for the 2014 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in his constituency.
About 800 schoolchildren who have registered for this year’s BECE are taking part in the exercise aimed at preparing them for the examination.
Mr Botwe said to assist pupils in the constituency to have good results in the BECE, he had decided to allocate a sizeable portion of his resources to education each year.
He explained that his gesture was to relieve parents of some of the financial burden associated with education and to ensure that schools in the constituency performed better in the BECE every year.
The MP said the exercise would also help to instill in the pupils a sense of duty and inculcate in them the habit of learning.
It would also allow them to experience the boarding system of education for the first time and encourage them to strive to enter into the senior high school.
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He added that the 2012 vacation classes he organised assisted in the achievement of good results by BECE candidates in the constituency, and expressed the hope that the pupils would take advantage of the gesture to achieve good results.
This year’s exercise, according to the co-ordinator of the programme, Mr Anim Addo, is being facilitated by examiners and dedicated teachers.
The children are being taken through the core subjects, which include Integrated Science, English Language, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Information Communication Technology.