kin Oda (Eastern Region), 14th April ?99 ?

Some final year junior secondary school (jss) students in the Akim Manso Circuit in the Birim South district presented blank answer booklets during last year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). They also failed to write their names on the answer booklets.

Mr J.S. Akakpo, Assistant Director of Education in charge of Manpower and Training, said "the scenario was real and not a mirage". "We have, therefore, intensified teaching and learning, management, supervision and community involvement in schools," Mr Akakpo said at the closing session of a three-day workshop on quality improvement in primary schools held at Akim Oda last Friday.

More than 35 School Management Committees (SMC) and Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) executives attended the workshop. It was financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the Community School Alliances (CSA) project.

Mr Akwasi Addae Boahene, Director for Field Activities of CSA, said the training workshop was geared towards equipping the SMC and PTA executives with the skills to be able to mobilise their members, communities, and stakeholders to strengthen the delivery of education.