The principal of the Komenda College of Education, Very Reverend Prof. Kwesi Wilson Nkum, has identified inadequate feeding allowance, uncompleted infrastructural projects, and huge electricity bills on the campus as challenges confronting the realization of the desired quality education.
He has therefore called on the college stakeholders to help address these challenges in his welcome address during the 14th Congregation ceremony of the college at Komenda in the Central Region.
The 14th Congregation ceremony of the Komenda College of Education, affectionately known as the KOMENCO, began with an exquisite procession of the convocation into the college’s Robert Mensah auditorium.
The Methodist Bishop of the Cape Coast Diocese, Rt. Rev. Bishop Richardson Aboagye Andam, who doubles as the college’s council chairman, thanked all stakeholders for bringing the college to its present level of development.
The principal of the college, Very Reverend Prof. Kwesi Wilson Nkum, considered the 14th Congregation of the college as paramount in the sense that the graduating students were enrolled in the college during the COVID-19 era.
The graduating students pioneered the compulsory sign language program introduced in the college.
This year’s graduating students produced the best grades since the establishment of the college.
He identified 55 first-class and 278 second-class upper out of 429 graduates, an improvement from the academic record of their predecessors.
He suggested to the Ghana Education Service and relevant partners to support colleges of education in the country to make the needed impacts. Very Reverend Prof. Kwesi Nkum Wilson advocated the introduction of Basic School subjects like Ghanaian languages, Music, and Physical Education into the curriculum of Colleges of Education that have the requisite facilities to produce relevant teachers for Basic Schools in the country.
Touching on challenges confronting the development of the college, Very Reverend Prof.Kwesi Nkum Wilson mentioned inadequate infrastructure, huge electricity bills, and inadequate feeding allowance as challenges that the college continues to grapple with.
He attributed the rise in the electricity bills on campus to the government’s decision to free students from paying the utility bill.
The Head of the Special Education Unit at the GES Headquarters, Helena Mensah, who donated books on Special Education to the college, commended the KOMENCO management for a job well done.
The Cape Coast Technical University Rector, Prof Kwaku Ayim Adutwum Boakye, delivered a speech on behalf of the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum. He hailed the Komenda College of Education for supporting the government’s all-inclusive free SHS and TVET education for all public second-cycle institutions in the country. He disclosed that over 477,000 students now benefit from the program.
As part of the event, graduates and staff whose activities impacted positively on the growth of the college were honored in both cash and kind.
The Secretary to the National Association of Komenda College Students Association, KOSA, Taylor, officially inducted the graduates into the college’s alumni after swearing the Alumni oath of membership. The induction ceremony was held on behalf of the president, David Ansah.
