HEADMISTREES of Nungua Senior High School (SHS), Mrs. Cecilia Asabea Boateng, has disclosed that the inadequate infrastructure facilities are adversely hampering the school’s efforts in enrolling more students.
She expressed worry about the absence of a dining hall and the small size of the library, which accommodates a little more than 50 out of the 1,600-student population of the school.
The headmistress was worried that the lack of these infrastructures was greatly affecting the teaching and learning which hitherto was hampering the quality of education being delivered in the school.
“We don’t have a permanent dining hall: it is also a challenge. Our library is also very small we cannot even accommodate up to 100 students at a time out of 1,600 students, so it is a challenge for the school authorities.
“Our home science students are also suffering, we don’t have enough rooms, and staff accommodation – we don’t have enough teachers on compound to supervise, it is also a challenge,” she added.
She was however, appreciative of the kind gesture of the Member of Parliament (MP) of the Krowor Constituency, Mr. Afoley Quaye, who has pledged to assist the school put up a boys’ dormitory facility.
She recounted the help given to the school so far by the MP in providing temporary accommodation for the students to make way for the reconstruction of a new building.
“The priority is the boys, but we are working on it with the help of the MP.
The boys’ dormitory is weak and earmarked for demolishing so the MP is helping us to relocate the boys and complete the new one for them to inhabit it,” she disclosed.
Nungua SHS was in the news some months ago for not having enough toilet facilities to accommodate the increasing number of students caused by the Free SHS policy.
The school thus had to shut down on the basis of poor sanitary condition until provision was made and the conditions were improved.
The headmistress made these remarks during a tour of selected schools in the Greater Accra Region by the deputy education minister in charge of general education.
The tour was to afford the deputy education minister the opportunity to access the quality of tuition in the region and interact with stakeholders in both the private and the public educational sector to understand their challenges.
Story: Freeman KORYEKPOR AWLESU
Writer’s email: freeman.koryekpor@todaygh.com.