By Edward Williams
Hohoe (V/R), Dec. 16, GNA – A 13-member reconstituted Board of Governors of the Hohoe Evangelical Presbyterian Senior High School (HEPSS) has been inaugurated to ensure quality outcomes in the school.
They are Mr G.S.K Kploanyi, Director General’s Representative, Mr Francis Yaw Agbemadi, Regional Director of Education, Mr Victor Kwaku Kovey, Hohoe Municipal Director of Education, Mr Franklin K. Amesimeku, Headmaster, E.P. SHS, Hohoe, and Rev. Andrews C. Tsahey, P.T.A Chairman, E.P SHS, Hohoe.
Others are Mr Abdul Wahab Seeribai, Trevi-Adabraka Electoral Area, Hohoe, Rev. Dr. Francis Kuvor, General Manager, E.P. Schools, Ho and Mr Foster Agotse, Retired Educationist, Togbe Buami IX, Divisional Chief, Gbi – Bla, Hohoe and Madam Priscilla A. N. Torkornoo, Assistant Director, IIA Hohoe Municipal Assembly.
The rest are Mr Benjamin H.K. Atidjah, Agribusiness Consultant, Mr Michael Kitson Amanfu, Retired Educationist, Mr Samuel Kwame Nyavor, Senior House Master, E.P. SHS, Hohoe, Mr Moses B.K. Aloka, Bursar, E.P. SHS, Hohoe and Madam Olivia Afua Agbezuge, Assistant Headmistress (Administration), E.P. SHS, Hohoe.
Mr Franklin K. Amesimeku, Headmaster of the School, said the Board of Governors was the highest decision-making body of every second-cycle institution and formed an important organ in the secondary school system.
He said the Board was made up of high rank individuals and representatives of stakeholders in the educational system from the regional to the community level and was usually reconstituted every four years when members complete their term of office.
Mr Amesimeku said the school’s population of about 3,300 students required a lot and the commitment of the governing board had helped in handling the challenges.
He said the school was facing numerous challenges that needed swift intervention by the new Board adding that “as we battle the untold discomfort unleashed on students and staff by inadequate furniture on campus, we also do not have teaching and learning materials to aid the work of the teachers”.
Mr Amesimeku said the school was also in dire need of students’ beds to help make proper use of the dormitory spaces.
He said the school had no Assembly Hall to enable them organise and hold many programmes instead of being held un under trees, the school compound had also become a highway where people from town came to test the speed of their motorcycles at any time because the school was not fenced.
Mr Amesimeku said the situation posed a serious threat to students and the staff and called on the PTA to speed up the fence wall project to curb the menace.
He said because of lack of teachers’ bungalows on campus, almost all teachers lived in town, leaving the workload of supervising students on the shoulders of the few house parents on campus.
Mr Amesimeku said teachers needed to be housed on the school compound to help supervise activities on campus.
Mr Francis Yaw Agbemadi, Volta Regional Director of Education, admonished teachers to desist from engaging in inappropriate relationships with students.
He said such behaviours were unacceptable and the Ghana Education Service would not tolerate them.
GNA
Edited by Maxwell Awumah/George-Ramsey Benamba