Winneba (C/R), April 15, GNA - The President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers, NAGRAT, Mr. Kwame Alorvi, has said that the success of the New Educational Reforms programme will depend on how well teachers are resourced and motivated to give of their best. "Teachers are the pivot around which the new education reforms revolve so the necessary encouragement must be to given to them to put in their maximum efforts," he said.

Mr Alorvi said this at a forum in Winneba to mark the SRC week celebrations of the University of Education. The forum was under the theme: "Implementation of the New Education Reform, the Role of the Graduate Teacher". He observed that Ghana had implemented various reforms in the education sector since independence but the aims and objectives of such reforms had not been achieved because teachers who are the major stakeholders had not been adequately motivated. He called for modular courses to upgrade the knowledge of teachers, as well as improved conditions in the training colleges, as part of the reforms.

Mr Alovi reminded teachers of their role in producing a bulk of the country's human resource and expressed the hope that with the necessary support, Ghana will have the required skills to transform the nation into a middle-income status by 2015. In brief remarks, Mr Kafui Atsutse, Manager of the National Investment Bank in Accra bemoaned the lack of adequate orientation for teachers to put them in line with the new reforms before implementation began. Mr Atsutse observed that children in private schools perform better compared to their counterparts in the public sector because of lack of adequate supervision and motivation in the public schools.