Accra, Dec. 4, GNA - Barclays Bank Ghana Limited on Tuesday expressed commitment to improving the quality of education in the Ga East District through partnership with the Academy for Educational Development (AED), Ghana.

Mrs. Shola Safo-Duodu, an official, who was speaking at a durbar to welcome the President of AED, Mr Stephen Moseley to the Haatso Calvary Presbyterian Primary School said the bank had adopted the school to assist in its educational needs and added that the it would extend its educational services to 25 others in the Greater Accra and the Western Regions.

She said the bank had instituted three main areas of service: Education, Health and Entrepreneurship as part of its social responsibility to assist the society.

Mrs. Safo-Duodo said the bank was therefore obliged to support the AED programme aimed at promoting education in the area. Mr. Stephen Moseley, the President and Chief Executive Officer of AED called for closer partnership between stakeholders in education to ensure equal opportunities to both boys and girls.

Mr. Moseley donated 100 Ghana cedi as seed money for the formation of a literary club aimed at inculcating the habit of reading into the children.

Mrs. Emma Baaba Quarcoo, District Director of Education urged parents to re-look the education of their children and give them the needed attention to ensure their holistic development adding, " You stand to gain in the future."

Mr Stephen Yaw Manu, Executive Director, AED-Ghana said since the inception of the project two years ago, there had been considerable improvement in teaching and learning.

He said a baseline study conducted in May 2006, showed that mathematics score, which was 55 per cent had increased to 63.4 per cent in July 2007, while English recorded a percentage increase of eight in the same year.

Mr Manu appealed to parents to provide supplementary readers for their children to help them in the learning process.