Opoku Ware Senior High School (OWASS) has observed the 25th anniversary of the AX Year Group (1999) under the theme: “Nurturing Our Education system to reflect 21st century realities”
The occasion was also used to give Awards to students and teachers.
Katakyie Prof. Andy Ofori Birikorang (AB112/AG325) delivering the keynote address stated that the various education reforms in this century have failed to address the inadequacies in the educational sector.
According to him, as a country we need to nurture a system that produces students who are open-minded and who are more importantly critical thinkers.
He noted that we have been encouraging the production of human resources for a labour market that no longer exists through a series of policies and Regulatory prohibitions enacted by the education system that killed students’ creativity.
According to him, we are caught up in a national illusion of providing education to propel development, instead we have nationalised that our education just like many others globally, to disempowered the people, even at a very minimal level many of us graduated from high school to the university without the craft of solving basic Community and public problems.
He observed that we are trained to reproduce existing knowledge and ideas that fit into a future that belongs to the past.
Katakyie Nana Sakyi Baffoe, President of the AX Group, appealed to stakeholders and old students to contribute their quota to the development of their Alma mater.
He noted that said the government has over the years tried to improve the standard of education but cannot do it alone without the support of the parents and well meaning Ghanaians.
Rev. Father Stephen OwusuSekyere, Headmaster of the school explained this year’s project is to help the school do landscaping of Walk ways from the New Assembly Hall to the library besides beautifying the campus and protecting students from scorpions and reptiles. E N D
