The Annual Conference of Directors of Education( CODE) would be held at the Bolgatanga Polytechnic Auditorium in the Upper East Region from September 8th to 12th , to chart the way forward in addressing challenges confronting the education sector.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga, during the launch of the programme, the National President of CODE, Mr Osei Kwadwo Hayford, said this year’s theme, “ Achieving and Sustaining Quality Education Delivery through Decentralization and Patriotism: The Role of Stakeholders”, apart from bringing all the Directors of Education together, would also attract some stakeholders in education.

The National Director, who is also the Director of Education, in charge of the Asunafo –South of the Brong Ahafo Region, disclosed that stakeholders would brainstorm and put up pragmatic methods in place to help curtail some of the major challenges confronting the education sector and appealed to all stakeholders to patronize the conference.

He called on all the Municipal and District Directors of education to step up their monitoring, supervision and evaluation roles and further appealed to major stakeholders such as political heads including parents to take key interest in how to help achieve quality education in the country.

“If all of us as stakeholders play our various roles very well, quality education could be achieved and that would also help the country acquire good human resource for effective development and growth”, the National President stressed.

The Deputy Regional Minister, Mr Daniel Syme, who launched the occasion, lauded CODE for the impending programme and said the theme was very appropriate since it was in tandem with the government’s vigorous search for quality education.

He said without patriotism, the nation’s efforts geared towards development would become a fiasco, and noted that, the recent strike actions by the University and Polytechnics Lecturers showed a lack of patriotism on their side.

Mr Syme stressed the need for teachers to nurture the spirit and sense of nationalism in school children to enable them to become responsible and warned that, if all stakeholders in education failed to play their roles very well “the quality of education for all as enshrined in the 1992 constitution would be a mirage”.

The occasion saw the presentation of 2, 275 laptops to teachers of Basic Schools in the Region, under the Teachers’ Laptop project, initiated by the Government.

In all there were about 4,000 teachers from the region, who underwent training in Information Communication Technology (ICT) to help in the teaching of the subject.

The Acting Regional Director of Education, Mr Emmanuel Samba Zemakpeh, who commended government for the support, was positive that with the training and the provision of the laptops to teachers, the gap of education between the north and south would be bridged and reiterated the need for teachers to work hard.