Takoradi Secondary School launches 50th anniversary celebration

Accra, Sept. 13, GNA - Stakeholders in education were on Thursday urged to do more in the development and progress of schools to help complement government's efforts in upgrading second cycle institutions to facilitate quality teaching and learning. "Old students, Parent-Teacher Associations, District Assemblies and School Boards are entreated to contribute their widow's mite, either in kind, cash or advice, to help build schools into model schools," Mr. Joe Baidoe-Ansah, Minister of Trade, Industry, Private Sector Development and Presidential Special Initiative said. The Minister, in a speech read on his behalf at the Launch of the 50th anniversary of Takoradi Secondary School (Tadisco) in Accra, said government had placed emphasis on rapid human resource development and had made investment into education infrastructure its top priority. The anniversary celebration scheduled for March 2008 is on the theme: "Tadisco@50: The New Education Reforms and Challenges for Day Institutions, the Role of Stakeholders". He said the government had launched many social programmes to ensure that it achieved its set objectives of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

Mr. Baidoe-Ansah noted that development activities in some schools, including Tadisco, demonstrated government's commitment to the provision of infrastructure to upgrade schools. Mr. Kofi Adofo Osei, Headmaster of the School, commended the contribution of the Old Students Association and past heads and administrators for bringing the school to its present state but admitted that there was to done.

Alhaji Fusnei Mahama, President of the Old Students Association, said some of the projects, which needed to be completed, included the boys' and girls' hostels, science and Information Communication Technology (ICT) laboratories and pledged the Association's commitment in helping to complete them.

The school, which was established in 1958 under the headship of Mr J.E. Eyeson, was named Regional Secondary School and housed in an abandoned military post near Anaji Estate, a suburb of Takoradi. It was absorbed by government into the public system in 1963.