MORE ENROL FOR KINDERGARTEN IN CENTRAL REGION (PAGE 11)

Story: Joe Okyere, Cape Coast

THIS year’s gross enrolment rates for kindergarten and primary schools in the Central Region recorded more than 100 per cent for both boys and girls.
The region also recorded an improvement in the percentage of trained teachers in basic schools from 55 per cent in 2006/2007 to 56.6 per cent in 2007/2008.
The Central Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Miss Rosemond N. Blay, made these known at the opening of the second Central Regional Education Sector Annual Review at the Aggrey Memorial AME Zion Senior High School at Brafo Low, Cape Coast.
The conference offered a forum for stakeholders to discuss issues affecting education and how to meet the challenges for higher enrolment and quality education in the region.
Miss Blay said the high enrolment rates and the improvement in the percentage of trained teachers in basic schools in the region were good indications that the numerous interventions or innovations undertaken by development partners and other stakeholders in the educational sector in the region were making some impact, and should be sustained.
She said it was established at the national review last year that the region placed first in the country in enrolment rates and second only after Greater Accra in the provision of quality education.
She therefore commended all stakeholders, development partners, non-governmental organisations and the United Nations Children Emergency Fund for their collaboration and contribution towards the promotion of education in the region,
She also urged the participants to take advantage of the forum and make recommendations that would meet the challenges ahead towards achieving quality education in the region.
The Deputy Central Regional Director of the GES and the Queen of Effutu, Nana Amba Eyiaba, who chaired the function called on all stakeholders to continue to provide the necessary support and make judicious use of available resources to boost education in the region.