Talensi-Nabdam District Education needs spacious office(Monday, February 27, 2012 )

Story: Benjamin Xornam Glover, Tongo The Talensi Nabdam District Education Directorate has appealed to the government to consider providing the directorate with an office block to improve on education delivery in District. Officers in charge of education in the area are also calling the district assembly, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and philanthropists to assist the directorate to address the problem. So bad is the situation that officer have to cram themselves around their working desks and the situation gets worse around these times of the year where temperatures are extremely high, making it difficult for officers to give off their maximum. Speaking to the Daily Graphic after a visit to the Directorate, all though the district Education Director, Mr. Joachim Faara, said although he has information that the assembly is making frantic effort to get a new site for offices for the directorate, that has not been successful due to scarce resources. He said coupled with that is the fact that the assembly also has certain pressing issues they have to take care of but was hopeful that at the right time when they get the necessary resources, they will be able to relocate the directorate to a more convenient place. “We don’t find it convenient staying in here because it has been an old classroom block. It is our prayer that as the district assembly harnesses resources, in future they will have to resettle us”, Mr. Faara said. He also appealed to NGOs and other Civil Society Organisations who want to help quality education delivery in the directorate to come to its aid. “Every officer needs some privacy in the discharge of his or her duties but because they are all jammed up in one room that is not possible. By the nature of the building, the ventilation is poor and inadequate for effective work, especially when the weather is hot, then you see that many of the officers are tempted to move out of the room and that makes it difficult to the staff to stay in the office from 8 am to 5pm. He described performance of pupils in the district as average adding that teachers and other stakeholders will have to do a little more in order for the education sector to reach excellence. -End- Pix:The Classroom block that serves as the offices of the Talensi-Nabdam District Education Directorate