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By Sambiru Duut Elijah, RNG
Wa, April 20
GNA – RELCASSOBV Ghana, a non-governmental organization based in Wa, has
provided 100 badorted books to the management of the Upper West Regional Library
with a call to the government to prioritize arts education to boost employment
creation.
L & # 39; organization
believes that the highest priority for arts education in the country would be
find many hidden talents of youth and help create vast jobs
opportunities for those without a job.
RELCASSOBV
(Rescue to Effective Learning through creative applications and support for
Orphan Sufferers and Broken House Victims) with the Wiyaala Foundation made the
donation to the library.
Speaking during
Dr. Prosper B. Laari, Chairman of RELCASSOBV, stated
the government should inject more resources into creative education and make it
a top priority for job creation.
"L & # 39; Asian
Tigers, especially Singapore, have used the arts as one of their pillars for
to transform their nations, "he said, but the subject can not be taught and learned
effectively in Ghana, mainly because of the lack of teaching and learning
materials.
Dr. Laari who is
also lecturer at the University's Campus for Development in Wa, said
Teachers and students at the basic school need appropriate resources to
teaching and learning the creative arts, but do not have what it takes, hence the gesture
help the regional library with the material.
He said
administrations have played a key role in the reorganization of the Ministry of
The tourism industry and creative arts, but there was "no direct link"
between the Ministry and the Ghana Education Service.
The situation
did not encourage the development of appropriate policies and programs
to propel stronger growth and development in the field of arts education.
In a speech read
Hafiz Bin-Salih, Regional Minister of the Upper West, said in his official name
education was essential to achieving the government's development goals.
aspirations
Therefore, he said
the government was investing heavily in infrastructure development and was continuing to
reforms in the education sector for accelerated economic growth.
He badured
stakeholders that the provision of infrastructure would not compromise
teacher motivation and provision of necessary teaching and learning resources
for academic work.
There would be
also be an effective mechanism of supervision at all levels of education
structure to ensure that teachers give the best of their abilities.
He said falling
education standards in the region posed a serious problem and called for
collaborative efforts to improve performance in the core cycle and the second circle
institutions.
Music icon and
Noellla Wiyaala, founder of the Wiyaala Foundation, called for a review of
teaching programs to put more emphasis on the creative arts, vocational and professional education.
Technical subjects.
according to
she, the western world has progressed in music and the movie acting through what is
be practiced in schools from infancy to adulthood, but the story here
in Ghana, it is different.
She said to have it
not because some expensive private schools have creative arts facilities,
talented children of the arts would have been deprived of the opportunity to present their
However, many financial challenges have been worth it.
Sharing
experiences, she said in Europe, creative arts and information and
Communication technologies are mandatory and opportunities are offered to children
practice music in studios or use computers in laboratories, but
Unfortunately, in Ghana, little or no attention is given to both topics.
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