ASHANTI SRC COMMENDS GOVERNMENT, ASKS FOR MORE

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Nana  Kwesi Bediako Ampaw, President of the Ashanti SRC addressing the media
The Ashanti Regional Student Representatives Council, ASRC has commended the government for the various bold initiatives being taken not just to increase access and quality of formal education, particularly in the Ashanti region, but also to insist on affordability at the senior high school level. 

According to the ASRC, which is the umbrella body for second cycle students in the Ashanti region, it is very much appreciative of the establishment of three new senior high schools in the Afigya Kwabre and Bosomtwe districts and the Ejisu-Juaben municipality which, in the view of the Council, has given many more junior high school graduates the opportunity to continue their education. 

Addressing the media in Kumasi as part of the 18th Annual Ashanti Regional SRC Week celebration, the President of the ASRC, Nana Kwesi Bediako Ampaw, praised also the government for insisting that unapproved components of the senior high school bills are removed, to ease the financial burden on parents as well as deploying teachers to rural areas to ensure some level of equity in the distribution of teachers across the country. 


Touching on other national issues, the President of the Ashanti SRC emphasized that while the National Sanitation Day initiative is highly commendable, it should not be restricted to only the first Saturdays of the month, but that efforts must be made to positively alter the behaviour and attitude of the Ghanaian towards environmental cleanliness that would encourage them to make clean up campaigns a daily routine. 

Master Ampaw also pledged the unflinching support of the Ashanti SRC to school heads and state authorities to deal ruthlessly with all forms of indiscipline whether at home or in school. 

According to him, the Ashanti SRC will not tolerate any student indiscipline particularly in the abuse of drugs for which reason it has pledged to help the organizers of this year’s Annual Inter-Schools and Colleges Athletics competition to identify the indisciplined schools and individual students for severe punishment.

 The Ashanti SRC however, appealed to the government to allow the heads of second cycle schools to charge students for certain critical teaching and learning materials such as Scientific Calculators and a specified number of Note and Exercise books. 

Additionally, the Electricity Company of Ghana must as matter of necessity, take all the second cycle schools off the ongoing load shedding exercise which is seriously and negatively affecting school activities, especially during Prep hours and practicals. 

Master Ampaw commended also the heads of the schools for working very hard to keep the schools in business in the face of certain obvious unfavourable economic difficulties, in the ultimate interest of their schools

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