Deputy Minister for Education, Dr. Clement Abas Apaak has stressed that the Education Ministry will ensure that basic education in the country continues to produce excellence.
He said, that is the only way Ghana’s education can be said to be doing better.
The Deputy minister made the remarks at “the President’s Independence Day Awards for School Children” to award 52 students who excelled in the 2025 B.E.CE. held on Wednesday as part of the Independence Day celebration.
He commended the students for their exceptional achievement attributing their feat to government’s commitment to maintain standards and ensure quality basic education.
“This awards is Inspire them to achieve more than they have achieved. Our basic education continues to produce excellence. This reinforces our commitment to maintain standards and quality at the basic level”, the Deputy Education Minister stressed.
Dr. Apaak later commended the teachers for their hard work, resulting in the performance of the students.
Deputy Minister for Education, Dr. Clement Abas Apaak addressing the young Achievers
“Your pedagogical leadership and classroom engagement has been the backbone of this successes”, he averred.
The 52 young Achievers including 2 visually and 2 hearing impaired, from both public and private schools, drawn from the 16 regions would be given lunch treat together with their parents and teachers later today.
The Awards Ceremony was greedy by Vice President Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang who expressed worry over the growing violence within senior High Schools, coupled examination malpractices, describing it as a Troubling development.
She said indiscipline undermine national progress and sends wrong signals about the Ghana we want maintaining that personal conduct has a national repercussion.
Against the growing concern of indiscipline in schools , the Vice President called for review of existing school disciplinary codes to address misconduct and vandalism that has witnessed in recent days in schools.
“Excellence is not about how best you do in class but how best you behave when no one is watching you.
Ghana is counting on you not to excel academically but to be disciplined as well”, the Vice President advised the young Achievers.
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