Egyam (W/R), Sept. 30, GNA - Mr. Eric Obese Amponsah, the Ahanta West District Director of Education, has attributed the abysmal performance of most BECE candidates to poor supervision and inability of parents to provid= e their children with teaching aids. He also mentioned the lack of infrastructure particularly in rural areas, the absence of role models, absenteeism by teachers and pupils, insubordination and the unwillingness on the part of pupils to study. Mr. Amponsah said this at the handing over ceremony of a three-unit classroom block at the cost of GHC35, 556 to the Egyam community. Support Foundation, a Canada-funded NGO operating in the Egyam community and its environs, provided the facility. Mr. Amponsah said quality education was the responsibility of all and lauded the contribution of the NGO.

He said it was pertinent that all stakeholders come on board to provid= e the necessary facilities to promote effective teaching and learning adding that government alone could not bear the cost for quality education. Mr Amponsah said the District Director of Education was developing strategies aimed at reversing the rather sad trend in the district. Mrs. Henriette Van Velden, head of Support Foundation Ghana, said though the NGO was relatively young in the country and the district in particular, it been able to provide bore-holes, hand-dug wells, poly tanks and renovation of places of convenience in the district. She appealed to the district assembly to provide chairs and urged parents to invest in the education of their children.