Tema, May 07, (Ms Nunoo) GNA - Mrs Victoria Opoku, the newly appointed Tema Metropolitan Educational Director (TMDE) on Tuesday paid a called on the Tema Mantse with a promise to raise educational standard in the Metropolis.

Mrs Opoku who succeeds Mrs Lucy Kwapong, the out-going TMDE promised to put in measures to address the low performance of Tema Manhean students in the 2007 Basic Education Certificate Examination. She was accompanied by Mrs Kwapong and other educational officers in the Metropolis.

Mrs Opoku asked for the support of the Tema Traditional Council in raising the standard level of education and noted that, quality education was the only legacy they could give to their people. Mrs Kwapong, the former TMDE also thanked the Council for its support during her five year directorship in the Metropolis.

She appealed to the Council to persuade the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and students of Aggrey Road Junior High School (JHS) in the Metropolis to allow some of its classrooms to be used as temporal offices for the Directorate which was facing ejection from its current location.

Mrs Kwapong said the Directorate has for now proposed a merger of the two sets of JHS classes that School runs in order to use some of classrooms as offices because the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) has ordered it to vacate its offices by May 31 this year.

Nii Adjei Krakue II, Tema Mantse said a part of efforts to improve upon the educational performance, the Council has banned the operations of children video and board games in the community.

Nii Adjetey Larbi, Tema Dzaasetse urged heads of second cycle institutions in the Metropolis to honour the quota system of admitting students into the schools.