Holy Child Senior High School in Cape Coast on Saturday, March 11, 2023, observed its 77th Speech and Prize Giving Day Ceremony with a call on education institutions to trigger sustainable education among students.
The first female professor of finance at the University of Ghana, Professor Vera Ogeh Fiador notes that schools must begin to provide the foundation for sustainable education to equip students to become effective change-makers and problem-solvers in society.
“The question we need to be asking ourselves today is whether the knowledge, skills, and character traits that we are transmitting in our schools and places of learning will ensure that as a people we do not perish… I dare say that this is the right time and place to begin to trigger the kind of sustainable education that equips our young ones for life to be change-makers who not only seek to move along or follow blindly, but rather seek every opportunity to transform our nation and our homeland, Ghana, and ultimately conquer the world” she said.
Professor Vera Ogeh Fiador said this while delivering the keynote address at the ceremony which was on the theme: Sustainable Education, Key to Nurturing Effective Change Leaders.
She notes that for education to be considered sustainable and thus play a key role in nurturing effective change leaders, it must be the kind of education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and most importantly ecological awareness.
“Sustainable education is therefore education that creates a public that thinks critically and participates fully in our quest for development and not an educational system that creates a technically competent but docile population,” she continued.
“The battle to change the world, and Ghana in particular, and to make it a better place, will be won or lost in our schools and institutions of learning… So clearly the institutions responsible for the transmission of the knowledge have a huge task at hand,” she added.
The annual week-long program of the school was characterized by some activities including Mentorship and Night program (HOPSA’98), literary night, medical screening for staff, and an Aerobics session with students, among others.
At the function, the host year group for the 77th Speech and Prize giving Day, HOPSA’98 handed over to the school, the phase two renovation of the Archbishop Amissah House as their legacy project.
The president of the 1998-year group, Agnes Akosua Akyeampong indicated that the year’s legacy project became a priority to make the facility comfortable for the students to have a conducive environment to study.
Speaking to ATLFMNEWS she said “You could have chosen any other project on campus but we believe the renovation of Archbishop Amissah’s house is a priority because the house wasn’t in very good shape… I believe that we have done well. It’s not an easy task… But we thank God that’s been able to achieve it.”
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Source: Eric Sekyi/ATLFMNEWS
