Keta, Sept. 11, GNA - A total of 50 Community Education Teaching Assistants (CETA), recruited under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) in the Keta Municipal Area, have ended a three week training programme and ready for postings.

The recruits, including 27 females, were taken through basic education principles, child psychology, school curriculum, lesson plan preparation, peer teaching and general education teaching.

Mr Sylvester Tornyeava, Keta Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), at their graduation ceremony on Friday asked them to take their assignments seriously for the right impact on the children they would handle.

He commended the NYEP and the Ghana Education Service for their support in the recruitment and training to argument the teacher deficit which the MCE said was partly responsible for the poor performance of basic school pupils in the area.

Mr Tornyeava was hopeful that plans by government to motivate teachers, in addition to the "education rescue packages" designed by the Anlo State Education Endowment Fund, would reverse falling educational standards in the area.

He said government would open up more career development opportunities for the youth.

Mr Edward Gbetodeme, Keta Municipal Education Director, told the trainees to take their recruitment as an important career development intervention which should positively impact on their lives.

Mr Gbetodeme who put the teacher deficit in the basic schools in the area at 450, asked the recruits to use the knowledge and skills acquired to contribute to raising educational standards during their two-year contract.

"Cooperate and learn from the professional teachers, take assignments from them seriously and you would soon realize that teaching is the noblest profession," he said.