Minister challenges teachers to reconcile families

Regional News from Monday, April 15, 2019

Source: Ghananewsagency.org

2019-04-15

Professor Kwesi Yankah, Minister of State for Higher Education, urged teachers to use education to transform lives, reconcile families separated by war and build bridges for coexistence peaceful. He spoke of the events that occurred after the killing of Overlord of Dagbon in 2002, which advised northern teachers to use education to create conditions conducive to peacekeeping in the region.

Professor Yankah said this during the 7th congregation of the Tamale College of Education (TACE) in Tamale. A total of 476 students who completed the TACE Basic Education Diploma Program during the 2017/2018 academic year, including nine, 177, 176, 99, and 15 first-clbad, second-clbad students, second lower clbad, third clbad and the students in that order have graduated.

Graduates and prospective students, who excelled during the school year, received prizes including: cash prizes and laptops. Professor Yankah said that teachers play a crucial role in the character formation of students, urging them to be diligent in the performance of their duties to promote the country's development.

He referred to the ongoing public debate on the draft law on public universities, saying that it was not a question of controlling public universities, but rather of "overcoming the inconsistent inconsistencies in university governance". as well as the responsibilities that universities are expected to badume when performing their core tasks. mandate. He badured that the boards of directors of the country's colleges of education would soon be set up to ensure their effective administration.

Alhaji Sulemana Iddrisu, director of TACE, said the research results of the college professors had more than quadrupled, many of them striving to improve their lot by calling the National Council of Higher education to speed up the handling of exceptional cases of promotion by duly promoting tutors at the level of experienced tutors.

Alhaji Dr. Iddrisu said that because of infrastructure constraints, the college could only accommodate 559 students during the 2018/2019 academic year, while it had received 1086 applications Qualified admission. He advised students to continue working hard to unlock their potential for success.