Cape Vars Don Lauds JSS Concept

The Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Victor P.K. Gadzekpo, has expresssed the need for another study of secondary-technical school requirement to allow students to combine their subjects in such a way that they can equally enter the other universities, should they fail to get admission to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

He lauded the junior secondary school idea, but regretted the inability of the authorities to carry it through Prof. Gadzekpo who was the guest speaker at the launch of the 40th anniversary celebration of the Suhum Secondary-Techinical School in Accra, over the weekend, called for the consolidation of the JSS concept to ensure that the technical component is well-organised and harnessed for the nation’s common good.

This, the professor – an old student of Suhum Secondary-Technical, explained will call for the provision of technical workshops for all JSS schools and suggested that technical subjects should be made examinable, just as the other subjects.

The dean said the JSS schools could be attached to various identified workshops in the community where the students could have practical training while money is sought to provide the worksops. He paid glowing tribute to the founders and pioneers of the school for their vision and foresight and urged the students to keep the vision ablaze.

The headmaster of the school, J. Addo Larbi, said the school which started with about 72 students and a handful of staff in 1963, now has a student population of 1,264 with 56 teaching staff and 63 non-teaching staff. He said the school lacks an assembly hall and appealed to past students and other stakeholders to consider the building of one as a birthday present.

The DCE for Suhum, Michel Kofi Mensah, whose speech was read for him,called on society and other private orgainisations to fund the cost to education in collaboration with the governement.