Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), on Tuesday said although access to education had improved, enhancing its quality was now the challenge.
He therefore expressed the commitment of GES to intensify its supervision on teaching and learning and called for the support of civil society to achieve the intended objective.
Mr. Bannerman-Mensah was speaking to newsmen at Dodowa in Greater Accra where he visited selected schools in and around the Dangme West District to interact with pupils and teachers to mark "My First Day at School."
He pointed out that civil society, especially parents, remained important stakeholders to improve education, hence the need for them to cooperate with the GES.
The Director-General therefore, charged parents to regularly visit their wards in schools to assess their performance as well as that of the teachers, in order to inform the education office of any misconduct of a teacher, in case they witnessed one.
Mr. Emmanuel Atsu Mensah, Dangme West Director of Education, also identified lack of support from parents as affecting education in the area.
He said most parents refused to attend Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) meetings, which provided the forum to exchange ideas to improve teaching and learning, attributing this to poverty and ignorance of most parents.
"Most illiterate parents still do not appreciate the value of education, whilst others have the perception that the PTA was organised to just extort money from them."
Mr. Mensah said to reverse the trend, the District Education Office through the support of the traditional council and other local authorities, sent round officers to embark on a door-to-door campaign to educate the community on the need to enrol their children.
He said the campaign had led to an increase in enrolment this academic year and expressed the hope that it would be higher in subsequent years.
Mr Bannerman-Mensah visited the Dodowa Presbyterian Primary, Fiankonya D/A Primary, Mobole D/A Primary and Odumse D/A Primary and presented the children with exercise books, biscuits, paper caps and fruits drinks.
He advised them to always be in school.
Dodowa Presby admitted 23 children pupils for Kindergarten (KG) and 43 for Class One, 51 pupils were enrolled for KG one at Fiankonya, whilst 28 and 24 pupils were enrolled for KG One and KG Two respectively at Mobole.
Forty-six children were also enrolled at Odumse for KG One.