ASANTEHENE URGES PREMPEH COLLEGE & OTHERS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EDUCATION FUND
Culled from Ghana News Agency (GNA)
March 9, 2001
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has asked school authorities to take advantage of the Otumfuo
Education Fund to improve upon their infrastructure facilities to ensure effective teaching and learning.
He said the fund was set up specifically towards the development and improvement of education in the country. He therefore urged schools to avail themselves to the fund so that the objectives for which the fund was set up would be achieved.
He explained that schools are expected to submit proposals on their needs to the board of trustees of the fund and negotiate with them for the release of the funds.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu who was speaking at the Speech and Prize Giving day of Saint Louis training College in Kumasi, regretted pledging 100 million cedis from the fund to Prempeh College towards their dormitory building and a bus for St. Louis College because the authorities of the school failed to negotiate with the board for the release of the funds.
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PREMPEH COLLEGE BEATS YAAGS IN A DEBATE
Culled from Ghana Chronicle
March 8, 2001
The question whether "men are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than women"
was the issue for deliberation when Prempeh College engaged Yaa
Asantewaa Girls (YAGS) in a healthy debate in Kumasi recently. The
competition was jointly organised by the Teens Net Foundation - an
HIV/AIDS advocate NGO and CEDEP.
It was to create awareness among the youth towards eradicating AIDS
among them. Arguing that women are more vulnerable, Prempeh College
carried the day with 213.3 against 211.3 by Yaa Asantewaa Girls. They
advanced such points that women engage in prostitution and that
female genital mutilation with unsterilised tools put them ahead of
men in the spread of AIDS.
Prempeh College also argued that for the simple reason that the 2000
HIV/AIDS report which says women lead in the infection rate made them
more vulnerable. Yaa Asantewaa Girls also argued that men are more
easily aroused than women and that the fact that AIDS is the second
cause of death in men puts them ahead of women in the spread of AIDS.
They also argued that most of the tools used by barbers are not
sterilised and since men are mostly found there shaving their hair
and shaping their moustache, they are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
than women. Addressing the participants, the regional co-ordinator
for School Health Education Programme (SHEP), Mr. A. Prempeh said it
is important to incorporate the youth with rich culture and norms for
the promotion of socio-economic development of the country since
according to him, Ghana depends on the manpower use of the youth.
He said the youth are 100% sexually active and that it is through
education that they could control their sexual drive in eradicating
acts like homosexualism and lesbianism (anal sex), saying these cause
the spread of AIDS.
He called on the government to help promote SHEP to save the youth
from further harm. Prempeh commended the Teens Net Foundation and
CEDEP for the anti-HIV/AIDS campaign. He emphasised the need for
Ashantis to make the spread of HIV/AIDS their prime concern.
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PREMPEH COLLEGE 51ST SPEECH DAY REPORT
Culled from Ghana News Agency (GNA)
December 4, 2000
Senior Secondary School graduates are now expected to apply for admission into the universities as from the next academic year, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service said on Saturday.
Announcing this at the 51st speech and prize-giving day of the Prempeh College in Kumasi, he said the decision followed the acceptance of recommendations by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) to the universities. Prof. Ameyaw-Akumfi, who was the special guest of honour, said, "the scare of a three year wait by our children and wards is over. Indeed it is a major step forward."
The implication of this decision, he said, is that the universities and other tertiary institutions will admit students with very good results.
He charged students to stand up to the task, adding, those with average grades may need to take advantage of examinations for private candidates offered every years, to improve on their results.
The Director-General said the GES has listened to concerns raised by parents, teachers, headmasters and headmistresses during the implementation of the revised calendar.
He enumerated measures that have been taken to help improve upon the management of the change and said for instance that funds have been sought to print more text-books for Senior Secondary Schools.
Professor Ameyaw-Akumfi said in response to a plea by the Committee of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), the GES is considering a reward scheme, most likely financial, for extra work undertaken by teachers.
He said the movement of heads of institutions is being shelved, except where it is absolutely necessary, to allow for continuity of measures already put in place.
The Director-General called on teachers and students to fully utilise the official contact hours as the three years duration of the SSS programme has been reduced to two-and-a-half years, because of the change over of the academic year from January-December to September-June.
In his report, the Headmaster Mr Ernest Sekyere said the school chalked 99.3 per cent in the 1999 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) as against 98 per cent in 1998.
By that result, he said, Prempeh College topped all SSS in Ashanti and was among the best three schools in the country.
He said two years ago, when he assumed duty in the school, there had been no substantive headmaster for three years, some of the college buildings and land had been turned into private property, the physical environment was deplorable and discipline was very low.
However, Mr Sekyere said, there is now some discipline, the physical structures have been improved and there is a general atmosphere of belonging from both students and masters.
He said the school has also renovated its dispensary and sick bay and engaged the service of a nurse.
The headmaster appealed to the Director-General to get the Ministry of Finance to redeem a pledge President Rawlings made to the school last year, to complete its library.
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PREMPEH FALLS SHORT IN THIS YEARS SCIENCE QUIZ
Senior Albert "Tee Maley" Asare
Serwah '92
Our boys came close to winning the National Science & Maths Quiz this year. In the finals of the Northern Sector Championship, we lost by a fraction of a point to St. Peter's Secondary School, Akwatia.
Thus, St. Peter's faced the winner of the Souther sector Championship for the National title in Accra. We came that close.
Better luck next time, guys.
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Book of Enrollment list still to be published
Senior John Wireko
Pearson House Prefect, 92/93
A special book that contains the names of all the students enrolled in the school for the first 50 years which we painstakingly compiled for publication for the Golden Jubilee, is still going to be published. The work could not be completed in time for last years Jubilee release date.
The book has a listing of ALL STUDENTS from 1949-1999. It was a very difficult work since most of the students' files have disappeared and we had to consult classmates for some names.
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