Ayekoo Foundation to honour 80 JHS

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24-07-08

Eighty Junior High Schools nationwide will be honoured in the second edition of the National Basic Education Awards to be organised by Ayekoo Foundation.
This year’s event is an improvement over last yea’s and would see the honouring of 40 public and 40 private schools as against only 40 schools last year. The 2008 event which will be held on August 16, 2008 at the National Theatre is on the theme: “ Quality Basic Education for All, Access for All”.
The National Basic Education Awards is considered as a unique platform to acknowledge the immense importance of quality basic education in the country.
Briefing the press on this year’s event, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the foundation, Mrs Barbara Gyamfi, said the academic excellence category, one of the categories for this year’s event, was competitive and would be based on the mean aggregate of students who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) last year.
She further said that the special recognition category, which was non-competitive, was in three sub categories.
Under this category, she said, the best male and female students would be honoured alongside four individuals who had made outstanding contributions towards quality basic education, and two people who defied all odds to obtain basic education.
Mrs Gyamfi disclosed that the awards, aimed at facilitating healthy academic competition among students was to create role models for all basic school students in the country, and that the award would be expected to encourage Ghanaians to contribute their widow’s mite towards the promotion of quality basic education in the country.
The annual National Basic Education Awards was launched in 2006 by Ayekoo Foundation in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to highlight the importance of primary education which appeared to have been neglected.
The foundation is a locally-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) which aims at promoting quality basic education in the country through innovative programmes and activities like donation of teaching and learning materials to basic schools and the organisation of capacity building workshops for directors, headteachers and proprietors of basic schools.




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