GOV'T.-RELIGIOUS BODIES NEGOTIATE HANDING OVER OF MISSION SCHOOLS

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Government is in talks with the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference and other religious groups in the country for a possible signing of an Agreement for the eventual handing over of mission schools to the religious organizations for management and control. 

The Association of Catholic Teachers, ACT, a faith-based teachers’ organization, which made this known in a Statement released at the weekend, has therefore pledged its full support for the negotiation and suggested that in the interim, a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, be entered into by the parties ahead of the final handing over and taking over Agreement. 

The Statement was released at the end of the 3rd National Coordinating Meeting of the Association held on the theme: “A Call to Leadership”, at the Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese of the Catholic Church.

 It was jointly signed by the National Coordinator, William Boakye Baafi, and the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocesan Secretary of ACT, Emmanuel Gazari. 

The Statement noted also with satisfaction that this year’s West Africa Secondary Schools Certificate Examination, WASSCE, organized by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC had minimal cases of examination malpractices. 

While commending the WAEC and its collaborators for the professional and successful conduct of the exam, ACT urged the Council to approach the impending Basic Education Certificate Examination, BECE for junior high school pupils with even improved professionalism so as to avert any leakage or malpractice.

 The Association however raised serious concerns about the rising cases of teachers engaging in sexual immorality with their students and cautioned teachers in general and ACT members in particular to avoid such embarrassing and disgraceful tendencies. 

ACT noted with worry that, even though some transfers are done in the interest of schools and teachers in involved, recent massive transfers of second cycle school heads in the country by the Ghana Education Service is untenable especially in cases where some of the affected Heads have stayed only two years or less at their previous posts since such administrative decisions disorganize the heads involved and deny them the opportunity to fully carry out their plans in their previous schools.

On the way forward, ACT has suggested to the GES to come out with a benchmark to serve as the basis to carry out similar transfers in future in the larger interest of all the stakeholders and quality education in particular.

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