The Western Regional Director of Education, Mrs Rebecca Efiba Dadzie has advised governing boards of second cycle institutions to use regular visit to the schools to find solutions to challenges facing the authorities.
He said the visits should not be used for witch-hunting purposes but as opportunities to work together with management in the interest of the institution.
Mrs Dadzie was speaking at the inauguration of a re-constituted Board of Governors for Fiaseman Senior High School at Bankyim, a suburb of Tarkwa.
The 14-member Board is chaired by Mr Robert Daniel Ainoo, headmaster of the School.
Mrs Dadzie tasked the Board to ensure that resources allocated to the school were used judiciously to promote a congenial atmosphere for effective teaching and learning.
In addition, the Board should make sure that students are given the right moral and academic training and members of staff made comfortable and motivated to attract others to the school.
Mrs Dadzie urged the Board to take active interest in the activities of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), especially in the area of imposing levies, saying, any fees proposed by the Association should have their approval.
She advised the headmaster to consult the Board on all major issues to avoid a “we are not consulted syndrome,” which normally creates suspicion and mistrust between the Board and the school’s administration.
In his remarks, Mr Ainoo said the school, with a population of over 1,200 students, including 600 boarders, and 54 teachers, as well as more than 40 other workers, had no permanent administration block.
Mr Ainoo said an abandoned school’s dining/assembly hall complex was on the verge of collapse. “It could collapse at any time,” he added.
He said only eight teachers were “properly” housed and that the rest had to commute daily from Tarkwa, five kilometres away.
The headmaster observed that because of slow pace of work on the various projects being undertaken, there was serious encroachment on the school’s lands and appealed to the traditional authorities to help check it.
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