She said in as much as the country tried to fit into global standards of education, it had to craft and determine its own standards so that it did not misdirect the indications of its own development.
Prof Opoku -Agyemang was speaking at the 140th anniversary speech and prize giving day of the Mfantsipim Senior High School in Cape Coast at the weekend.
The celebration was on the theme, “Mfantsipim at 140th milestone: Contributing to professionalism and meritocracy for national and global development”.
She said the SDGs gave countries space to craft their own standards and as such the Ministry had prepared a draft but was engaging stakeholders on discussions to solicit their views.
The idea was to ensure that effective strategies, policies and programmers were put forward to achieve the SDG four, she noted, and called on all stakeholders to endeavour to make inputs into it.
Prof Opoku-Agyemang said education in Ghana was rated high in Africa because it continued to perform very well in the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE), but indicated that it was time it was taken to another milestone for it to be counted among the best in the World.
She said the Government looked forward to having more Grade ‘A’ schools in the country, and indicated that it was ready to partner stakeholders to make it a reality.
The Headmaster, Mr. Manfred Barton Odro in his annual report, said the school had undergone tremendous development since its establishment in 1876 and commended the sponsoring year groups for their benevolence.
He said the School produced outstanding results in the 2016 WASSCE with one of its students, Master John Owusu being adjudged the best General Arts student.
He said 28 students who sat for the examination had 8As, 56 had 7As while 51 also had 6As and expressed optimism that the current batch would do more.
He appealed to the Government and old students to assist the School with a new school bus as the existing two buses were too old.
He also appealed for a new assembly hall with a larger capacity to accommodate the over 2,000 students as the old one had compelled students to go for meals in batches, distracting academic work on campus.
Mr. Barton Odro said as part of efforts to ensure that the School had a manageable enrolment of not more than 1,800 students within the next three years; it admitted only 600 fresh students this year.
He explained that the exercise was to ensure that students receive quality training at the School.
Awards were giving to deserving students, teachers and non-teaching staff.
Source: GNA/NewsGhana.com.gh
