Kassena Nankana Retirees inaugurate association

The Upper East Regional Minister Mr Mark Owen Woyongo has called on retired teachers in the Kassena Nankana East District to share their rich experiences with the Ghana Education Service to save the falling standards of education in the region.

He said students who performed poorly found it difficult to

re -sit examinations knowing quite well that their results would

not get them job placement.
Mr Woyongo said retired teachers had a store of

knowledge which when shared with the younger generation

would be beneficial to them.
He made the call at the week end, in Navrongo, when the

Kassena Nankana Retired Teachers Association

(KANARETA) inaugurated their association.
He said considering the long life span of man and the fact

that many Ghanaians when retired still looked young, a serious

thought was being given the retirement age to ensure that

people who fell within such age category continued to serve

the country.
He said the region was beset with student rioting and

indiscipline evident in the disturbances that occurred in five

senior high schools when students vandalized school property

including street lights.
He said the region had looked up to government for the

provision of amenities because it was less endowed with those

resources yet students vandalized them at the least opportunity.
Mr Woyongo challenged the retirees to use such forum to

set up consultancies to advice the education sector on the

nagging educational problems.
He said an educational endowment fund would be

established in the region to take care of brilliant but needy

students so that more professionals, especially doctors would

be trained to work in the region.
Mr Philip Agamba, Chairman of the retirees association

listed the objectives of KANARETA as bringing retired

teachers together in unity to remember past glories, to avail

themselves to offer their services to the District Assembly,

Ghana Education Service and their communities, to mentor the

young teachers and to support one another.
He appealed to the District Assembly to complete a

teachers’ resource centre already started to enable them to

prepare their teaching and learning materials for the schools.