PLAN TO FACILITATE TEACHER TRAINING TRANSITION (PAGE 11)

THE National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports and the Ghana Education Service (GES) are working together on a detailed plan to facilitate the transition of teacher training colleges to tertiary status.
As part of the plan, a workshop has already been organised for all principals of the colleges.
Another workshop for the principals and college accountants on the preparation of budgets to facilitate the incorporation of the budgets of the colleges into the tertiary sector budget is slated for next month.
These were contained in an address read by the Executive Secretary of the NCTE, Mr Paul Effah, on behalf of the Minister of Education, Science and Sports, Professor Dominic K. Fobih, at a durbar to mark the 60th anniversary of the Komenda Training College at the weekend.
Professor Fobih said his ministry and the NCTE had also held discussions with vice-chancellors of the universities on proposals to facilitate staff development in the training colleges.
He said there were also proposals to strengthen ICT education through the provision of more computers and Internet facilities for the training of students to facilitate easy access to information, while teachers resource centres in all teacher training colleges would be strengthened.
He reminded principals and other key staff members of the colleges of their duty to ensure that standards were maintained in all the colleges.
In her address, the Principal of the Komenda Training College, Mrs Gladys Awan-Noonoo, called for the provision of more infrastructure for the college to enable it to increase its intake and improve teaching and learning.
The Central Regional Minister, Nana Ato Arthur, advised teachers to live above reproach to improve the image of the profession.
The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, the Rt Rev Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah, expressed his pride at the contribution of the college towards education in the country by having liberated men and women from illiteracy who now occupied high positions in the country.