The Central Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), has expressed grave concern about the wholesale admission of BECE candidates into Senior High School by the Ghana Education Service.
According to the Association, the move was seriously hampering the efforts being made by the private schools to improve quality education the country was yearning for.
Mr. Eric Appiah, Central Regional Chairman of the Association made this known during the week-long celebration of private schools at Agona Swedru.
The chairman regretted that universities and polytechnics had also become dumping grounds of these candidates due to their poor performance at the SHS.
The celebration had ”Quality or Quantity Education: Which Way Ghana?”.
He said the ”effect of wholesale promotion, that is, promotion not based on merit, would result in rolling on poor materials through the educational system, and at end of the chain, turn out bad products.
He urged politicians to leave matters on education to the professionals, and urged the various communities and constituencies to turn their backs to the use of education as promise by politicians to buy their votes.
The Regional |Chairman asked politicians not to use education as an infrastructure to do politics, since that could jeopardize the future of Ghanaian children.
He called for a national educational policy that would not be changed by any future government to promote quality education.
Mr Justice Kojo Yankson, Agona West Municipal Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools, appealed to parents to pay their wards’ school fees regularly to promote effective teaching and learning.
He expressed deep appreciation to the Agona West Municipal Chief Executive(MCE), Mr Samuel Oppong, for supplying furniture to private schools within the Municipality.
Mr Orlerty Wusah, Agona West Chairman of GNAPS said the success of quality education coupled with better examination results chalked by private schools depended on supervision.
