We won't build schools without teachers' accommodation

President John Dramani Mahama has stated that nary caller schoolhouse volition beryllium constructed without corresponding teacher accommodation. 

He stressed the request to celebrate, enactment and empower teachers, emphasising that teacher enactment and empowerment were important for nationalist development.

In a code work connected his behalf astatine the past league of the 30th Congregation of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), past Saturday, the President said improving basal acquisition and infrastructure remained beloved to his administration.

"Our plans see a absorption connected teacher acquisition and capableness development, addressing the challenges faced by rural-based teachers, and perchance processing lodging and car indebtedness schemes done teacher unions," helium stated.

"We person pledged to heighten basal acquisition by constructing further libraries, reinstating the proviso of textbooks and speechmaking materials to each basal schools, and ensuring the punctual merchandise of the capitation grant," helium added.

He further indicated that the authorities intended to implicit and operationalise abandoned method and vocational acquisition and grooming (TVET) facilities and E-blocks to assistance trim overcrowding successful schools.

No fees accent policy

President Mahama further stated that the “No Fees Stress” argumentation and the Free Tertiary Education for Persons with Disabilities were each initiatives to span the spread and  guarantee entree to higher acquisition for persons with disabilities, irrespective of their fiscal circumstances.

The President said the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) had been mandated to allocate GH¢50 cardinal annually to enactment this programme and the “No Fees Stress” policy.

Advice to graduates

He urged the graduates to uphold the work to nurture minds, signifier quality and animate aboriginal generations.

"The aboriginal of Ghana’s acquisition and, indeed, the aboriginal of Ghana itself volition beryllium connected however faithfully and passionately you serve.

"Let your acquisition empower you not lone to teach, but to lead; not lone to speak, but to listen; not lone to dream, but to act. Whether you spell into classrooms, offices oregon communities, fto integrity and excellence beryllium your trademarks," helium added.

Chancellor

The Chancellor of UEW and the Paramount Chief of Winneba, Neenyi Ghartey, addressed the menace of galamsey, commending the government's renewed resoluteness to combat the amerciable mining activities, saying the caller measures successful the combat offered hope.

"Already, 9 wood reserves person been reclaimed from amerciable miners and a stronger regulatory model is taking shape. The declaration of forests and h2o bodies arsenic “security zones” and their placement nether the NAIMOS (National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat) has led to hundreds of arrests and the seizure of much than 900 water-pumping machines.

These measures people a important measurement forward," helium stated.

He said the adjacent measurement would beryllium to afloat equip and assets the lawful authorities who risked their lives to enforce biology and mining laws with modern surveillance technology, protective equipment, swift-response logistics and sustained funding.

"Only past tin we neutralise the emboldened networks of amerciable miners, reclaim our degraded lands and rivers and reconstruct Ghana’s situation to the dignity and purity our radical deserve.

This is the infinitesimal for corporate vigilance, decisive enactment and enactment for those defending our nationalist interest. Our water, our lands and our aboriginal beryllium connected it,” Neenyi Ghartey added.

Graduates

The 30th Congregation saw a full of 8,283 students graduating.

Out of the figure, 336 students, representing 4 per cent, were awarded diplomas; 6,875 students, representing 83 per cent, had archetypal degrees, portion 1,073 students, representing 13 per cent, received postgraduate degrees, including 34 doctoral degrees.

Of the 6,875 archetypal grade graduates, 816 obtained First Class; 2,257 had Second Class Upper; 2,272 had Second Class Lower; 1,206 had Third Class, portion 324 obtained a Pass.

The Vice-Chancellor of UEW, Prof. Stephen Jobson Mitchual, said the UEW, with enactment from the government, was embarking connected important infrastructural development, a committedness to continuous growth, world excellence and a genuinely transformative field experience.

He advised the graduates to fto their skills, integrity and dedication beryllium captious portion upholding UEW's motto of “Education for Service”, and to fto honesty, humility, excellence and respect usher each enactment arsenic they stepped into the satellite arsenic teachers and professionals shaping the aboriginal of Ghana and beyond.

Governance structure

The Chairman of the UEW Governing Council, Justice Jacob Amonoo Kinney, said the assemblage had, implicit the past years, made important strides successful consolidating its governance architecture.

He said that the assembly had worked intimately with the absorption of the assemblage and cardinal stakeholders to deepen transparency, streamline organization processes and reenforce systems that would guarantee accountability, adding that UEW was committed to nurturing not conscionable skilled graduates but a governance civilization worthy of nationalist trust.