Government Has Shown Enough Commitment To Education - Obeng

Tema,(Greater Accra Region) 13 Oct. Government has demonstrated considerable commitment to education through reforms it initiated ten years ago and it is now up to parents to take advantage of these and ensure that their children are in school. Despite an increase of about 700 per cent in the recurrent budget for education since 1987 and the many opportunities provided, some parents have turned a blind eye to these and many children are loitering the streets while others are engaged in commercial activity. Mr Solomon K. Obeng, Director-General of the Ghana Educations Service (GES) said this in a speech read on his behalf at the 15th anniversary speech and prize-giving day of the Chemu Secondary School in Tema yesterday. He said the government's commitment is shown in the redesigning of the curriculum at the basic education level, the provision of infrastructure and the restructuring of management and administrative systems and the training of teachers. Mr Obeng, therefore, appealed to parents to send their children to school to prepare them adequately for the leadership roles they will play in future. To the students, he said ''you should resist the lure of foreign culture and its attendant social evils, the urge to lead premature adult life and the drive towards the social evils that plague the youth of today''.