BOARDING HOUSES NOT BROTHEL-EDUCATION MINISTER

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The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has described as unacceptable and a blot on Ghana an allegation of sex abuse of some girl students of the Ejisuman Senior High School in Ashanti allegedly by some male teachers of the same institution. 

According to him, even though the Ministry and the Ghana Education Service are treating the matter as an allegation, the fact that some of the supposed victim students who are identifiable have openly come out to narrate their ordeals should give stakeholders the cause to be agitated about the issue. 

Addressing a forum on education in Kumasi, Dr. Opoku Prempeh warned that boarding houses cannot be managed as brothels and that any school head or regional director of education who fails to instill sanity and discipline should be held liable for any such offences. 

He described the incident as a breach of the parent-children relationship that should exist between students and teachers in schools, should it be established. 

Touching on other issues, the Minister for Education announced that from the start of the next academic year beginning from September this year, no school head will be allowed to use their official systems to collect PTA Dues on behalf of the Parents-Teachers Association. 

He said just as GETFund and other development partners in the formal education sector continue to do, PTAs should devise their own innovative and creative mechanisms to collect their Dues. 

Dr. Opoku Prempeh explained that while some school heads in agreement with their respective PTAs are taking advantage with the situation to exploit members of the Association, the compulsion of the Dues payment hinders is drawing back government’s efforts at enhancing access to education.

 He promised to engage the National PTAs Association to address the issue.


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