As part of recommendations from the Central Regional Education Directorate, the Cape Coast Metro Education Service has engaged stakeholders in their role in transforming education in the metropolis.
The engagement was to evaluate the performance of students in the metropolis and find solutions to improving learning outcomes in the levels of education from the Basic school to the Senior High School Level.
Highlighting the challenges of the metro education service, the Cape Coast Metro Director of Education, Mad. Dorcas Brenda Asare said the negligence of some part of parents is not helping in the teaching and learning process within the metropolis.
Speaking to ATL FM NEWS on the sidelines of the stakeholder engagement, she called on all parents to help supervise their wards when they are home to enhance smooth learning.
She notes that teachers do their part at school it is important that parents play their role in ensuring their wards attend school even after registration for their final examination. She adds that parents must guide their wards to have ample time for learning at home.
“You leave the child on his or her own to do whatever he wants then I mean, even at home they need to supervise their children to learn.”
She further called on all stakeholders to also assist in providing some basic needs of the schools in the metropolis.
She said when we started school, it was the communities that were putting up buildings and these were very solid structures that they put up and for years they still existed. So we are saying that it is the responsibility of everybody to support, especially the parents.”
On his part, the Deputy Director-General in charge of Academic Programmes and Professional Development at the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) in the University of Cape Coast, Dr. Alfred Kweku Ampah-Mensah charged both parents and teachers to see education as a collective responsibility to promote learning and maximize the learning opportunities for the children.
As part of measures to ensure the betterment of education in the metropolis, the directorate has signed performance contracts with various heads of basic schools and senior high schools which aim at assessing the performance of the various schools and also to put the various stakeholders on their toes.
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Source: Richard Osei Korankye/ATLFMNEWS
