The Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Enoch Cobbina, has said academic excellence could only come with quality and affordable education and this would determine the future growth and development of every country.

He said academic excellence demanded quality teaching through the use of appropriate teaching aids.

Mr. Cobbina said this in a speech read on his behalf at a forum to mark the celebration of the sixth Education Day by stakeholders in education of children in Senya Breaku.

The Day on the theme, “Quality Affordably Education and Proper Heath Care - the requisite tools for good nation building” was to access the academic standard of the children in the area and the way forward.

He said academic excellence required that parents played their respective roles by providing the necessities that would motivate the children to learn and also needed discipline as necessary ingredient for effective teaching and learning.

“The kind of education a nation has determines the kind of human resources it has,” Mr Cobbina said.

He said good management practices that promoted efficiency in every sector and aspect of the life of the school mattered most in achieving academic excellence and schools in the communities had gone through many challenges just as the country had in the delivery of quality education.

Mr Cobbina commended the stakeholders in the town for setting aside a day annually to discuss education issues and urged them to contribute their quota to supplement what the government provides so that the quality education could be achieve.

The Headmaster of Senya Senior High School, Mr. Eric Nana Mensah, appealed to the parents to encourage their children to attend school regularly because absenting themselves from class led to poor academic performance.