Monitor academic performance of children - Baiden-Amissah

24-11-08
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The Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Sports, Mrs Angelina Baiden-Amissah, has called on parents and teachers to constantly monitor the academic performance of children to ensure that they take their studies seriously.
She said children should also take advantage of existing opportunities to move up to the highest level of the education ladder.
Mrs Baiden-Amissah made the call at the second presentation of benefits to 30 students under the Junior Achievers Trust International (JATI) programme and the State Insurance Corporation (SIC) Life Education Assurance Policy in Accra.
The beneficiaries were made up of 25 girls and five boys.
Mrs Baiden-Amissah said the education reform programme had made it mandatory for children of school-age to be in school, adding that “presently the government has a project like the school feeding programme with the aim of providing a decent meal, and development of schoolchildren”.
The Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, commended JATI, SIC and heads of senior high schools who took the initiative to get their students enrolled in the scheme.
He said the GES would ensure the sustainability and growth of the scheme by adhering to the tenets of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it signed with the organisation so that more students could benefit from the package.
The Board Chairman of JATI, Mr John Yaw Amankrah, said the aim of the programme was to demonstrate the fulfilment of mission of the organisation.
“JATI exists to reduce the incidence of school drop-outs and improve academic performance of students in senior high school”, he explained and pointed out that the organisation exists to teach entrepreneurship to benefit students aged 11 to 18.