Kpeve, Nov 28, GNA - Mrs Veronica Adzato-Ntem, South-Dayi District Director of Education, has said she would change the notion that private basic schools perform better academically than public ones.

The District Director of Education said she has transferred some headteachers and demoted others and improved school supervision. Mrs Adzato-Ntem said these has helped to veer the district from 37 per cent pass in the 2010 Basic Education Certificate Examination to 73 per cent pass this year, to top the Volta Regional Performance table.

She was receiving three computers and a printer donated to the District Directorate by the Volta Educational Renaissance Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO), based in Peki in the Volta Region on Saturday. Mr Ametefee Korbla Normanyo, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the NGO, said the Foundation, founded in 2007 by Mr Deodat Emilson Adenutsi of the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, supported 93total education whose products would not only be literate but reflect high ethical values." Mr Normanyo said the NGO engaged in research to establish the scope, incidence, implications and impact of education, morality and character formation on economic and socio-economic life, in the region. He called on individuals and organisations to help improve the standards of education in the region.

Ms Albertina Alipui, Executive Secretary of the NGO, said the Foundation had donated educational materials to schools and operated a scholarship scheme for students in Senior High Schools and tertiary schools. Mr Senanu Bekui, South-Dayi District Chief Executive, said the Assembly would provide schools in the district with furniture.