SHS HEADS TO SIGN PERFORMANCE CONTRACT

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Very soon, Ghana Education Service will enter into performance contract with all heads of second cycle schools in the country to engender improved academic performance and quality education. 

The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, made this known in Kumasi at a meeting with Heads of Senior High schools graded as low performing from the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions. 

Dr. Opoku Prempeh noted that no school head should have any cause to complain after applying and accepting appointment to his or her duty post with a foreknowledge of the challenges prevalent in the school. 

What is required is for the school heads to be creative and innovative in their leadership while always keeping themselves abreast of the trend of their school’s academic performance. 

The Education Minister assured that government, on its part, is committed to addressing the infrastructural and teacher deficits while providing teaching and learning materials including textbooks to enhance the learning environment in the schools. 

Dr. Opoku Prempeh said he publish the names of some school heads how their schools were over populated despite the GES posting the requested number of students to their respective schools.

 Also, a number Headmasters, both in active service and on retirement, will be prosecuted for an accumulated debt of about eight million Ghana Cedis over a five-year period for unpaid utility bills even though the monies have been taken from parents. 

A Deputy Minister for Education, Dr. Osei Yaw Adutwum, disclosed that in the near future, Grade C7 will not be admitted at the Colleges of Education. 

Additionally, the minimum tolerable performance of a school at any external examination shall be 50 per cent saying that plans are being made now to introduce a mechanism in the West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, that will make cheating easily detectible and un-rewarding for any candidate or school to engage in it.

 Dr. Adutwum entreated school heads to regularly engage their teaching staff on the trend of students performance according to the various Subjects so as to promptly identify weaknesses and progress.




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