THE Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Opoku-Manu, has called on students to make the most out of the investments made in them by their parents and the nation.
He said the current generation of students should be inspired by the large number of past students managing various high positions in the country and learn hard to achieve the purpose for which they were in school.
Mr Kofi Opoku-Manu made the call at the 58th Speech and Prize-giving Day of St Louis Senior High School held at the school’s compound Kumasi in the Ashanti Region last week-end.
He said the school had contributed immensely to eracdicating the erroneous impression about the capabilities and potential of the Ghanaian woman.
Mr Opoku-Manu said the government considered investment in human resource as a top-most priority and would explore all possibilities to ensure that schools and other training institutions were equipped with the requisite infrastructure to position them to produce the needed manpower to support the social and economic development of the country.
He advised the students to give due respect to their teachers and the authorities of the school to encourage them to open up to them to achieve their individual aims and aspirations in life.
The regional minister commended the Catholic Church for its immeasurable contribution towards supporting human resource development of the country.
The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Theresa Addae Commeh, said the school, which now has a population of 1,200, needed classroom blocks, accommodation facilities for tutors and a bigger school bus, explaining that the bus currently being used by the school could carry just a few students.
Mrs Commeh said the school had a borehole provided by a philanthropist but that could not cater for the water needs of the school and the students had to walk long distances to fetch water, and called on the ministry, companies and individuals to assist the school to meet its water requirements.
She said about 360 girls would be enrolled for the next academic year.
Mrs Commeh said majority of the 53 tutors and 63 non-teaching staff members lived outside the school compound and this had been a source of worry to the school since such a situation did not help in the supervision of the students.
Mrs Elizabeth Amoah-Tetteh, Deputy Minister (Pre-Tertiary), who deputised for the Education Minister, commended the school for its academic spirit and successes chalked up by the students.
She commended the students for their healthy academic spirit, which is the prerequisite for harnessing the resources of the nation.
She also praised the students for being peaceful without the slightest unrest at the school.
The chairman for the ceremony and the Metropolitan Archbishop of Kumasi, the Most Rev Thomas Kwaku Mensah, urged the students to learn with courage and take advantage of modern science and moral studies to help the nation because without moral excellence all their experience would come to nought.
He contended that moral education should be tied to the process of training and appealed to parents and guardians not to leave moral training in the hands of teachers.
He urged the government to always listen to the voice of the Catholic Church concerning education, adding that only the best was good for education and the church.
A representative of the St Louis Past Students Association (SLOPSA), Miss Georgina Darling Ofori, on behalf of the members, presented 30 computers, and 40 chairs and tables valued at GH¢42, 200 to the school as their ‘widow’s mite’ to assist their alma mater.
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