Government to build new campus for T.I Ahmadiyya Senior High

Wa, April 27, GNA - The government is to build dormitories, classro= om blocks, teachers quarters and bungalows to relocate the T.I Ahmadiyya Sen= ior High School in Wa which is located in temporary structures. Land has been acquired at Charia in the Wa Municipality for the project to take off, Mr. Mahmud Khalid, the Upper West Regional Minister,=

has said. He said the school has no campus and the students are subjected to risks and that had affects academic performance and morals of the student= s. Mr. Khalid was addressing the 5th annual conference of the Ahmadiyy= a Muslim Higher Educational Institutions held in Wa on Monday. The conference was on the theme: "Education Decentralisation, the r= ole of education units" was attended by members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Missi= on, heads and managers of educational institutions and units.

Mr. Khalid said decentralizing education would not guarantee its quality and that it was evident that quality would suffer as a consequenc= e of that. He said falling standards in education could, to some extent, be attributed to the emphasis on numbers of schools than the quality of products. Mr. Khalid called on religious organisations to establish schools t= hat are in line with government's education reforms and to ensure qualitative=

tuition or training of the products. They should also consciously ensure the inculcation of moral values=

into them to stand against corruption and other social vices such as drug=

abuse and smuggling. He called for collaboration between religious organisations and district assemblies in the establishment of new education institutions to=

promote judicious utilisation of resources. Commenting on the content of Ghana's formal educational curricula, Mr. Khalid observed that it was obvious that the country was over producing personnel in some areas and under producing in some other areas. He appealed to the conference to debate and come out with appropria= te suggestions that would improve the curricula to provide students skills t= o achieve national needs.

Mr. Khalid said government would support efforts that would make education accessible and affordable without sacrificing quality. As such, government would provide classroom accommodation for all=

schools under trees and build classrooms and dormitories to accommodate Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE) candidates who would gai= n admission to the senior high schools in September. Mauvi Mohammed Bin Salih, the Deputy Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Missi= on, called for stepping up of moral training of students in Ahmadiyya Educati= on institutions. He said through moral training students from the schools would bec= ome patriotic and fight corruption. Mr. Momi Dimbie, General Manager of Ahmadiyya Muslim Education Uni= t, said the unit had established 328 schools throughout the country. He said there had not been a demonstration in any of its schools and attributed that to the discipline nature of the students who had resolved= to dialogue in whatever situation they found themselves. Mr Dimbie said he was not happy that some Ahmadiyya schools were listed among schools that were involved in examination malpractices. He mentioned inadequate infrastructure in some of its schools, accommodation for teachers and unit managers, lack of means of transport and insufficient supply of finances to managers were some challenges impeding=

education delivery in the sector.