Monitor progress of past students - School authorities urged

Saltpond (C/R), April 28, GNA - The Mfantseman District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Robert Quainoo-Arthur, has urged heads of educational institutions to monitor the progress of their past students to counsel them and their parents when the need arises. He pointed out that it was not enough to prepare students only for examinations and not to take interest in their progress after their results had been released.

The DCE made the comment when a girl who passed the 2005 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination with aggregate 14 presented her result slip to him at Saltpond, because her parents did not know what to do with it.

When GNA on its normal rounds got to the DCE's office, he was making frantic contacts on his cellular phone if he could get admission forms to enable the girl to gain entrance to a university.

Mr Quainoo-Arthur appealed to the well-to-do to support the education of brilliant but needy students in their communities, adding that "the time has come for us all to be each other's keeper". The DCE pointed out that the purpose of ensuring that every child enrolled in school would be defeated if they were not supported to further their education to the highest level.