Kumasi (Ashanti Region) - The Ghana Education Service (GES) is working towards standardising some aspects of the curriculum of senior secondary schools (SSS) to pave the way for Ghana to join other West African countries to take the same West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.

The Rev Ama Afo Blay, the Director-General of GES, who announced this on Friday, did not say how soon this would be done. She was speaking at the opening of the Presbyterian Secondary School at Kyirapatre, a suburb of Kumasi, the first senior secondary school to be built by the Presbyterian Church in the Asante Presbytery.

Rev Blay said in view of Ghana joining the other West African countries to take the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, it was imperative for teachers in senior secondary schools to revise their lesson notes constantly.

She expressed regret that churches had allowed their partnership with the government in education to slip by and their excuse that the government had taken schools from them was not true and urged them to work towards restoring this role.

The Rev Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, Chairman of the Asante Presbytery, said private participation in education was very vital. ?The government alone cannot shoulder adequately the development of education and for that matter, basic and tertiary education.?

Rev Dr Frimpong-Manso said private participation in education delivery and the provision of facilities therefore, was very vital for the development of the manpower needs of the country.

The Asante Presbytery, he said, had seen the need to support government efforts in education delivery and that was why the whole Presbytery was being levied to build one senior secondary school for Asanteman and Ghana.