Mangoase SHS gets board of governors, Wednesdat, March 21, 2012, Spread

THE Board of Governors for the Mangoase Senior High School has been inaugurated after the school had operated for two years without a board.

The 11-member board, sworn in by Rev Francis Tipong the head pastor of Mangoase Presbyterian Church, is led by Mr Ransford Tetteh, Editor of the Daily Graphic and President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA).

The board is expected, among other things, to serve as an advisory body to the headmaster.
The body will control the general policy of the institution subject to further directives from the Minister of Education through the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council and also form procurement committees to ensure effective  teaching and learning.

Addressing the new board members, Ms Adriana Kandilinge, the Eastern Regional Director of Education, said the board had been appointed at a time when SHSs in the country were facing numerous challenges including accommodation, infrastructure and poor academic performance.

She, therefore, urged the board members to use their rich experience with the help of the school’s Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) to tackle to the myriad of challenges facing the school.

The regional director also urged the board to be circumspect in its activities to ensure that the usual friction that came between school boards and heads of schools did not affect the school.

While commending members of the old board for their sacrifices over the years, she told the new board, “We trust that with your experience and high standard, decisions taken will serve the best interest of the staff and the school as a whole.”

“The board must cooperate with staff, students and PTA and the community to ensure that peace prevails. When peace prevails, then everybody’s attention will be focused on how to fulfil the school’s mission and vision of excellence to the optimum,” she said to a wild applause from the students.

 To the PTA, Ms Kandilinge said “the PTA is in place to support the school for development purposes, adding, “They are, however, advised that they should deem it right to seek approval from the Board in connection with any project they decide on as they are the highest decision-making body in the school”.

She told the students, “Being in  this school, you should take advantage of the qualified teachers at your disposal, use all the energy you have in you to study to become useful to yourselves, your parents, your community and the nation as a whole”.

Opened on January 27, 1992, the Mangoase SHS or MASS, as it is affectionately called, is among the most deprived SHSs in Ghana.

The school, which is located at Tetteh-Kofi village in the Akuapem North  District in the Eastern Region, is accommodated in the former buildings of the defunct  Suhum Cocoa Project.

Although operating a boarding system, accommodation for both teachers and students was a Herculean task.

But the new board chairman, Mr Tetteh, said the days of deprivation and struggle would soon be over for the school.

He gave an assurance that the board would do all it could to change the face of the school and leave it better than it was now.

The Headmaster of the school, Mr Albert K. Worfa, commended the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) for  initiating a two single-storey six-room dormitory for students in order to deal with student accommodation problems.

He also appealed for support to acquire a school bus for the school to help ease transportation constraints facing the school.

The outgoing chairman of the board, Mr Lawrence Adu-Boateng, pledged the assistance of the old board to the new board to ensure that it achieved the needed result.

He also added his voice to the call on the students to study hard and become useful citizens in the future.
Mr Adu-Boateng cautioned them against neglecting their books to find comfort in entertainment programmes outside the school.

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