Non-performing schools to be closed

The Dispatch carries that as part of the government’s determination to ensure that only highly qualified, motivated and dedicated secretaries are produced in the country, private secretarial institutions that fail to live up to standard will be closed down.

The Minister for Primary, Secondary and Girl-Child Education, Ms. Christine Churcher, said in a speech read on her behalf by Mr Patrick Yileyire of the Ministry of Education at the 3rd graduation ceremony of the Professional Training School of Secretaryship (PTSS) in Accra last Saturday.

She noted that corporate bodies, industry, the service sector and the government machinery need competent and qualified secretaries for high productivity as the ear of mediocrity is over.

Ms Churcher therefore called on Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), private organizations and other stakeholders to support training institutions in the country, as the government alone cannot provide financial resources to support them.