Nkoranza (B/A), July 10, GNA - The authorities of the Institute of Education Planning and Administration of the University of Cape Coast are conducting studies into challenges facing the nation's education, especially in the retention of teachers and to advise the Government on strategies to address the problem.

Student delegates have been tasked to visit selected school communities and to bring out their findings.

Messrs Peter Abokyi and Emmanuel Kwasi Fianyehia had completed a week's visit to ten schools in the Nkoranza District to check teacher enrolment and attendance and also to take a profile of the District Education Directorate.

The schools they visited included Dinkra Local Primary, Dompoase Local Primary, Dotobaa Local Primary, Nkoranza Roman Catholic Primary and Nkwabeng Presbyterian Primary "A" and "B" schools. The others were Nsugum Local Primary, Makyinnabre Ahmadiyya Primary, Nwoase Local Primary, Pinihe Roman Catholic Primary and Bonsu Methodist Primary Schools.

According to the two student teachers, the District Education profile would enable them find out areas with low or few teachers and that would pave the way for finding out the cause of those problems. Studies had revealed that teachers continued to leave the Ghana Education Service to join other departments and there was the need for the government to delve into the causes of the teachers' actions. The excise being undertaken by the University of Cape Coast was meant to find out whether it was the cause of the lack of job satisfaction.