Day: September 2, 2022

Accra, Sept. 2, GNA – Old students of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) Primary and Junior High School have presented a cheque for GH¢20,000 to the Queen of Apostles Boarding School.

Presenting the cheque, Dr Bernardette Naa Hoffman, an old student, observed that “most schools in communities like ours have become what they are today because they received support from well-meaning citizens.

We are by this gesture appreciating what we received by way of training from this great institution some years ago.”

She said having benefited from the benevolence, selflessness and kindness of others, the need to look back, support and give back to our alma mater had always been the driving force for the formation of the Alumni.

Sister Theresa Pearl Quansah, the Vice Provincial Superior in charge of the school, expressed gratitude to the Alumni for the gesture.

She said like the little Oliver, the school continued to seek the support of all Alumni, Corporate bodies and all well-meaning individuals to enable them to complete the repair works which had already started. 

“The first few spots of rain this year saw several properties destroyed in Ghana, and Queen of Apostles Boarding School, Elmina was not spared,” she said. 

She said the school was in complete ruins, putting the nuns in charge under a lot of pressure to raise funds to carry out repair works before school resumed. 

Other members of the delegation were Dr Nancy Nyan, Madam Georgina Amissah and Madam Monica Eku all from the OLA boarding school Elmina Alumni.

OLA Boarding School, originally St Anne`s Girls School, has been in existence since 1884, and recently, in 2006, became Queen of Apostles Boarding.  

As the first girls’ boarding school in the country, it has churned out many responsible women both in Ghana and abroad.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Accra, Sept. 02, GNA – The African University College of Communications (AUCC), a private university in Accra, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this September 2022 with entrepreneurship focus.

The University in a press release to the Ghana News Agency noted that the celebration is on the theme, “Re-imaging AUCC: Excellence in Education within the Context of Pan-Africanism and Digitisation.”

The University indicated that it would be charting a new focus as an entrepreneurial university, by integrating technology, data analytics, artificial intelligence and digitisation into its academic and professional development programmes and administration.

“With this in mind, AUCC is expanding its programmes to offer more online and hybrid academic courses, especially postgraduate, professional development and certificate courses. It has also expanded its Africana Studies curriculum to include African diaspora studies.”

“To achieve this vision, the Institution has developed contemporary, industry and society-relevant, practical, problem-based, technology-oriented programmes and courses that aim to close the skills gap between academia and industry,” the University added.

According to the University, it had pursued its mission of preparing lifelong learners to become innovative problem-solvers and ethical leaders in the fields of communication, business and related areas.

This was done through excellence in interdisciplinary teaching, research, and collaboration at the local, regional and global levels using a pan-African framework.

The AUCC was established in 2002 by Mr Kojo Yankah, a veteran journalist and media administrator, as a private tertiary institution, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Communications and Business.

The University formerly known as Africa Institute of Journalism and Communications has evolved from its first batch of 60 students to over 1,500 students.

The University has achieved many successes over the period, including the recognition by UNESCO as a Centre of Excellence in Communication Studies in Africa as well as adjudged 2021 Best Private Communication School in Ghana by the Private Universities Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG).

The activities planned for the celebration will begin on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 with an unveiling of a new strategic vision, followed by a Founder’s Day forum, public lectures, and community engagements.

The climax of the celebrations will be a public lecture on the anniversary theme featuring the Professor Toyin Falola, Professor of African Studies, University of Texas, Austin-USA.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Lawra, (UW/R), Sept. 2, GNA – Mr Bede A. Ziedeng, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lawra Constituency, has invested a total of GH?21, 400.00 to support the Lawra Education Directorate to improve its service delivery to the people in the municipality.

As part of the support, the MP donated a public address system and eleven new office chairs as well as refurbished 41 pieces of furniture, including chairs for the directorate.

Speaking at a brief ceremony in Lawra to hand over the items, Mr Ziedeng indicated that the support was occasioned by a request from the education directorate to enhance the work of the staff.

He said the support was also borne out of his desire to contribute to improving the educational system in the municipality.

“We are all aware that education is indeed the key to our development, so anything that will promote the development of education is very important.

“They appealed to me to support them to be able to do monitoring, so I gave them some money to be able to monitor, and this amount is GH?2,000.00”, he explained.

Mr Ziedeng said, through the MP’s share of Common Fund, he had also approved an amount of GH?24,232.40 for the education directorate to pay for the mock examination of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates.

He added that he had previously disbursed GH?160,000.00 to 160 tertiary students of the municipality to support them in the payment of their school fees while some students were still receiving that support.

The MP said he had also donated GH?11,330.00 for the feeding of final year students of the Birifoh Senior High School to enable them sit for the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at the Ermong Senior High Technical School.

“I am working to provide more drinking water; I am working to support health delivery, and I will soon enter income-generating activities to support the youth.

“All these will help to address the development challenges the Lawra constituency is facing,” Mr Ziedeng added.

Mr Abdul Karim, the Lawra Municipal Coordinating Director, who represented the Lawra Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), commended the MP for the development initiatives to help facilitate the development of the district.

“We appreciate sincerely what the MP is doing, after all, it is the people that we are all serving. Together we are lifting the development of the district.

“We always say that it is a partnership, while the assembly and the government are doing their part, the Member of Parliament is also doing his part”, he observed.

Madam Paulina Azanbawu, the Lawra Municipal Director of Education, expressed gratitude to the MP for the support and said it would impact positively on their service delivery.

She gave the assurance that the items would be put to good use to derive the expected benefit from them and to contribute meaningfully to the development of the constituency, especially the educational sector.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Tamale, Sept. 2, GNA – The Government has been urged to increase budgetary allocation towards monitoring and supervision of schools to help improve the performances of pupils and students.

It has also been urged to dedicate five per cent out of the District Assemblies Common Fund allocated to the education sector to support the monitoring and supervision of schools.

This formed part of inputs presented by various stakeholders in the education sector for consideration in the 2023 National Budget and Economic Policy of government.

The stakeholders made the call during a stakeholders’ consultative forum to collate inputs into the 2023 National Budget and Economic Policy of the Government organised in Tamale by SEND-GHANA, a non-governmental organisation, with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund.

There were presentations on how the 2022 budgetary allocations to various sectors such as Education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Gender, Children and Social Protection were being spent.

Stakeholders from Education, WASH, Gender, Children and Social Protection, among others, attended the forum.

They observed that the performances of pupils and students were falling due to poor monitoring and supervision, a situation they attributed to poor funding.

Mr Fuseini Abdul-Rahaman, the School Health Education Programme Coordinator at Karaga District, who led a group discussion on education during the forum and presented its inputs, said increasing funding towards monitoring and supervision would improve teaching and learning and the performance of pupils and students.

Other participants also expressed concerns about poor management of solid waste, calling for increased funding for community-led total sanitation to end open defecation in the country.

Mr Mohammed Mumuni, the Northern Regional Programmes Manager of SEND-GHANA, commended the participants for their frank discussions and input.

He said SEND-GHANA was undertaking similar fora in other regions, adding that the inputs would be put together and presented to the Ministry of Finance to consider for the 2023 National Budget and Economic Policy.

Mr Fred Yiryel, a Principal Economics Officer at the Ministry of Finance, commended SEND-GHANA for its continued efforts to promote participatory democracy by offering platforms to the population to influence government policy.

The Ministry of Finance is expected to present the 2023 National Budget and Economic Policy to Parliament in November, this year.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Accra, Sept. 2, GNA – Oheneyere Gifty Anti, The Host of Standpoint Show, has called on parents to encourage their children to cultivate the habit of reading and developing a passion for books.

She said every child has the potential and with encouragement and support they could bring out the best in themselves through reading.

Oheneyere Anti gave the advice at the Perbi Cubs’ Celebration of Champions, an event by Perbi Cub Library Services to celebrate school pupils, who have emerged as top readers and schools that won inter-school reading quizzes.

Perbi Cubs started as a children’s library in Ghana some three years ago with the dream of creating a culture of reading among the younger generation.

Perbi Cub Library Services is an evidence-based literacy-promoting endeavour that desires to see enlightened people of African descent, who are a product of an enviable national culture of leisure reading.

It aims at nurturing well-rounded children using its “Lions Inspire Cubs’ programme and reading track and activities based on the GES Curriculum.

She said reading opened the minds to various possibilities and builds the confidence and boldness of whoever endeavours to read.

She said there were a lot of benefits that come from reading, urging the children to pay attention anytime they decided to read.

“Anytime, you come across any unfamiliar words, first check the dictionary or ask for assistance from an elderly person,” she added.

The Author of Five Books said, “Success comes when preparation meets opportunities in life.”

Oheneyere Anti commended the management of Perbi Cubs for the continued support to encourage children to read more.

The Show Host used the opportunity to inspire the children with some of her life-changing stories.

Mrs Anyele Perbi, Co-Founder of Perbi Cubs, said, “we desire to see an enlightened people of African descent who are a product of an enviable national culture of leisure reading.

She said at Perbi Cubs, there were thousands of thoroughly researched resources that were available to the children in the reading community affectionately referred to as Cubs.

The Cubs are engaged in exciting reading challenges, videos, webinars, fun competitions, and quizzes to help them better their scope of knowledge and their creative capacities.

She said before Covid-19, Perbi Cubs was operating in partnership with schools and lending only hard copy books to the children.

“As a result of Covid- 19, we have gone online and currently operate as a digital library,” she added.

She said Perbi Cubs believed in an affirming, encouraging, holistic and fun learning environment where children learn to love to read and reap the many benefits from that.

Certificates were presented to Perbi Cubs Vacation Readathon with top readers being Ariel Amoonoowa Asman, Delaenam Hiagbe Kofi Jnr. and Dove Bedi.

The Inter-school reading Quiz had St Martin de Porres – Dansoman (represented by: Andrea Archea and Jeremiah Mawunyo) emerging winners and The Light Academy (represented by: Dove Bedi and Wesley Amoonoo Nyankson) came second.

The third position went to Alsyd Academy (represented by: Giovanni Niatse Adjei and Yaw Mantey) and vine Christian school (represented by: Esene Amegah and Justin Blankson) took the fourth position.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Accra, Sept. 02, GNA – Edibeck Consult, Ghanaian summer camp company, in partnership with Summer Camps Holland, a Netherlands based summer camp company, has led Ghanaian students on an educational and culture tour of Europe.

The Ghanaian students from some basic international schools in the country had educational and cultural experiences of four countries namely the Netherlands, host and brief stops in Germany, Belgium and France.

The schools included the British International School, The Light Academy, Morning Star School, Ghana Christian International High School, Jack and Jill School, Alsyd Academy, Mount Olivet School, Riss Presby Model, St. Peters Cambridge International, Christ Ambassadors School of Excellence and St. Martin de Porres School.

Mrs Rebecca Nana Ofosua Ampong, General Manger, Edibeck Consult, said the objective of the partnership agreement was to promote culture, tourism and education between the Netherlands and Ghana and the entire West Africa.

She stressed that it was also to expose the students to the various cultures and tourist sites of the European countries.

“It was such an adventure for our Ghanaian children and teens as they experienced such memorable activities,” she added.

The students participated in raft building, dropping, archery tag, ziplining, living cluedo, forest and mountain climbing, bonfire night, bowling, among others.

They also had an experience in Disneyland Paris, Moviepark Germany, Dutch cheese farm, tour of Amsterdam, Amsterdam canal cruise, artificial Dutch beach visit, Westfield Centro, Open Air Museum Arnhem, Grand Palace, Manneken Pis, tour of Paris and Eiffel Tower.

Mrs Ampong added that, as part of their education, they were given lessons on Introduction to Dutch, its language, history and facts about the Netherlands and were awarded certificates.

“Our participants are already looking forward to next year’s summer camp. As always, registration with Edibeck Consult starts from October 1st to January 31st the following year. It will be an amazing adventure,” she said.

Source: Ghana News Agency