Hot!
ATU donates to Nsawam Prisons, Mpehuasem Basic School
- /home/u249204778/domains/spectator.com.gh/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mvp-social-buttons/mvp-social-buttons.php on line 27
https://spectator.com.gh/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Prof.-Alice-Mensah-presenting-the-books-to-Mr-Bright-Loggah-the-headteacher-of-Mpehnasem-Methodis-Basic-school-with-the-staff-of-ATU-and-pupils-Photo-Lizzy-Okai.jpg&description= ATU donates to Nsawam Prisons, Mpehuasem Basic School', 'pinterestShare', 'width=750,height=350'); return false;" title="Pin This Post">
- Share
- Tweet /home/u249204778/domains/spectator.com.gh/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mvp-social-buttons/mvp-social-buttons.php on line 72
https://spectator.com.gh/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Prof.-Alice-Mensah-presenting-the-books-to-Mr-Bright-Loggah-the-headteacher-of-Mpehnasem-Methodis-Basic-school-with-the-staff-of-ATU-and-pupils-Photo-Lizzy-Okai.jpg&description= ATU donates to Nsawam Prisons, Mpehuasem Basic School', 'pinterestShare', 'width=750,height=350'); return false;" title="Pin This Post">
Prof. Alice Mensah presenting the books to Mr Bright Loggah the headteacher of Mpehnasem Methodis Basic school with the staff of ATU and pupils Photo: Lizzy Okai.
The Accra Technical University (ATU) as part of activities to mark its 75th anniversary celebrations donated stationery, cartons and bags of water to the Nsawam Prisons in the Eastern Region last Thursday.
The University also donated customised exercise books and pens to the Mpehuasem Methodist Basic School to aid teaching and learning of both teachers and pupils.![• Rev ADP Martin Padi ER Regional Chaplain [fouth from right]
recieving the items from Prof.Alice Mensah with ATU staff and
Officers from the Ghana Prison Service Lizzy Okai](https://spectator.com.gh/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Rev-ADP-Martin-Padi-ER-Regional-Chaplain-fouth-from-right-recieving-the-items-from-Prof.Alice-Mensah-with-ATU-staff-and-Officers-from-the-Ghana-Prison-Service-Lizzy-Okai.jpg)
Presenting the items, the chairperson of the anniversary planning committee, Professor Alice Mensah, said the gesture was to help address the needs of the community in which it was situated.
“The exercise also underscores the university’s commitment to community service and part of its corporate social responsibility of reaching out to community development,” she said.
Professor Mensah expressed satisfaction with the educational interventions for inmates to learn vocational and technical skills after serving their sentences.
She said that the university would explore opportunities of collaboration with the management of the prisons to offer courses in vocational and technical education.
At Mpehuasem, she said there was a satellite campus of the university there and found it prudent to donate to the school to enhance academic studies.
Prof. Mensah said the university’s doors were opened so that the school could use the science laboratory at the Mpehuasem campus for hands-on experience.
She advised the students to strive for academic excellence by taking their studies seriously for a better career.
Superintendent Paul Nuobepuor, Officer-in-Charge of Education and Training, Nsawam Prisons commended the university for the donation and pledged to use the items for its intended purpose.
He said the prisons had schools from kindergarten to Senior High School and courses for inmates in draughtsmanship, carpentry, and electrical engineering to enhance their skills in technical and vocational training.
Superintendent Nuobepuor said 24 inmates would graduate from the University of Cape Coast after undertaking degree courses in education, banking, and others.
Mr Bright Loggoh, Headteacher, Mpehuasem Methodist Basic School, thanked the University for the gesture.
By Michael D Abayateye
A 24-year-old tricycle (Pragyia) rider, has been jailed three months by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region for biting a Community Police Assistant (CPA) at Nkawie.
Abdul Aziz pleaded guilty to the charge of negligently causing harm and was convicted on his own plea.
Police Inspector Kwaku Frimpong, prosecuting told the court presided by Mr Robert Addo that, complainants in the case were officers from the Nkawie Divisional Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service.
He said on September 3, at about 8:40am, the complainants led by Chief Inspector Abedi Larbi, were on their official patrol duty to ensure safety at Nkawie township and met the convict, who was in-charge of a Pragya tricycle with registration number M-25-A-3722.
He explained that, after a careful inspection, it was detected that the convict was without licence and other required documents, so Alhassan Seidu, the CPA, was instructed to lead him to the office for the next action.
On their way to the office, the convict took a different direction, so the CPA directed him to take the right route to the police station, but he disobeyed and attacked the CPA, resulting in a struggle between them.
In the process the convict bit the CPA on the chest, so he shouted for help and some nearby youth rushed to the scene and helped him to arrest the convict.
In his caution statement, he admitted the offence and after further investigations he was charged and brought before the court. –GNA
SKIP THE QUEUE, TAP THE NEWS
You can now read the Ghanaian Times and The Spectator newspapers from the comfort of your device via TimesNewsPlus.
Join our WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbBElzjInlqHhl1aTU27
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged the government to place all 54,985 candidates affected by the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) placement exercise in schools and publish the final outcome.
The party says the government must ensure that the affected candidates secure actual school places rather than merely being allowed to access the self-placement portal.
In a statement signed by the Chairman of the NPP Policy Co-ordination Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the party expressed concern about the situation facing the candidates.
The NPP said the government had announced that 53,887 of the affected candidates could use the self-placement system after initially being told that they had not qualified for secondary school.
It, however, argued that access to the portal did not guarantee that candidates would secure their preferred schools or programmes.
“Ghanaian parents and candidates will judge the resolution of the challenge by one thing only: how many of the original 54,985 are sitting in a classroom, not how many were allowed to open a website,” the statement noted.
The party said the government’s own figures showed that the country had 859,828 declared vacancies for 623,072 BECE candidates.
It explained that the main challenge was the concentration of demand in a small number of highly subscribed schools.
The NPP noted that 313,283 candidates selected Category A schools as their first choice, while those schools had 76,417 declared vacancies.
It therefore called on the government to explore ways to improve schools with available spaces, including providing teachers, laboratories and better programmes.
The party urged the government to use the 85 private schools participating in the Free SHS programme to absorb candidates who remained without placements.
The NPP further called for clarification of the rule and pass mark used for this year’s placement exercise, saying parents were entitled to know the standard before their children sat the examination.
It urged the government to take urgent action to ensure that the affected candidates were not left behind in the transition to secondary education.
By: Jacob Aggrey
