Mr Daniel Akwasi Adarkwa has called on parents and guardians to give premium to the education of their children to assure them of a better and secured future.

Mr Adarkwa, Assistant Director in-charge of Basic Schools and Examinations in the Asante-Akim North Municipality, said they should cut down on frivolous expenditures and that the situation where people tend to take more interest in funerals, wedding and other social activities to the detriment of the education of their children must change.

He was addressing a graduation ceremony held by the Oxford International Junior High School (JHS), a private school at Konongo.

Mr Adarkwa asked children to also accept some responsibility for their education and that government, the community, missions, parents and teachers are playing their expected roles to create the right environment for academic work, thus the pupils and students should do their bit by working hard on their books.

Nana Rockson Fosu, the Proprietor of the school, called for the strengthening of guidance and counselling in schools to aid children in their choice of professional careers.

He said they needed to be assisted to have better understanding of the opportunities out there, to bring down the growing graduate unemployment in the country.

Mr R. K. Awuah, Director of the School, called for discipline among the young people saying it is the path to success.