TEMA GES AWARDS 21 TEACHERS (MIRROR, PAGE 35, DEC 18, 2010)

From Rose Hayford Darko, Tema

THE Tema Metropolitan Directorate of Ghana Education Service (GES) has awarded 21 teachers for their hard work and dedication to duty at its Best Teachers Award ceremony in Tema.
The award winners were from the primary, junior high and senior high schools in various disciplines of Science , Mathematics , General subjects , vocational and technical categories .
Also awarded were some hard working and dedicated non-teaching staff at the Metropolitan office of the GES.
Those who came first in their categories took home a double door fridge, second positions had four burner standing gas cooker and the third place winners received 21 inch flat screen television sets.
The Deputy Director General of the GES, Mr Victor Adu-Mante, said the awards formed part of incentives meant to promote quality basic education in the country.
He said it was also to provide the opportunity as well as challenge for the basic and second cycle schools to strive for excellence.
Mr Mante called on school directors to properly manage their capitation grants and commended heads of senior high schools for their effort during the admission of first year students in the face of all odds; and assured them that GES recognised that motivation enhanced excellence.
The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Robert Kempes Ofosuware, said the Assembly would continue to support and invest in education, adding that the Assembly would provide six pavillions and also meet the infrastructure needs of SHSs in the Metropolis.
Mr Ofosuware said work would soon begin on the construction of 10 new classroom blocks for schools throughout the metropolis with funding from the GetFund.
The Metropolitan Director of Education, Mr Kwesi Hutchful, appealed for decent accommodation for the GES and stressed the need to check the encroachment of school lands in the metropolis.
The Greater Accra Member of the Council of State, Mr Adjei Annang, who chaired the programme, accompanied Mr Mante to inspect a guard of honour mounted by the Navy Cadet of OLAM Senior High School with support from Chemu Senior Secondary School band.