Special classes for selected students in Nanumba

Bimbilla, (N/R), May 23, GNA- Nanumba District Education Office is to organise special classes in science, mathematics and English Language for students in junior secondary schools to prepare them for the national essay and quiz competitions.

This was announced by Mr Nantogmah Ziblim, Acting District Director of Education at a durbar to mark the world book and copyright day at Bimbilla, under the theme: "Read a book to day". He said students from the district, who went through a long period of deprivation after the ethnic conflict in 1994, need special tuition to be able to compete favourable with their counterparts in other areas.

Mr Ziblim said the staff at his office and some tutors of the Bimbilla E.P. Training College would handle the classes and, therefore, appealed to Nanumba citizens in and outside the district to support the programme. He also advised parents to send their children to school adding that after five years of the education reform programme every child of school going age should be in school.

The regent of the Bimbilla Paramountcy, Vo-Naa Atta Abanka, who was the guest of honour appealed to teachers to lead exemplary lives for their pupils to emulate them, adding "a student should not go beyond the teacher to look for a role model".

Mr Edward Seidu Zakaria, Officer in charge of the Inspectorate Division at the District Education directorate, who chaired the function, said the occasion was intended to inculcate the reading habit in children and urged teachers to ensure that their pupils cultivate it.