Mama Vida Afla Awusibea II, Queen mother of Nyagbo Traditional Area in the Volta Region has urged teachers to uphold high moral standards in their schools.
Giving the advice at the fifth Anniversary Celebration of VAAD Educational and Teacher Training Centre in Accra on Saturday, she said
teachers must be role models for pupils and students to emulate them.
The celebration was under the theme: "Promotion of pre and basic teacher education".
Mama Awusibea, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of VAAD said the Centre, which is based in Accra, has trained about 1,039 educationists from
varied backgrounds including proprietors and teachers since its establishment five years ago.
She called on Ghanaians to respect teachers to enable them to offer the best training for their children and wards.
The Queen mother also charged parents and guardians to cooperate with teachers and advised them to take active interest in the education of their wards.
Mama Awusibea appealed to government to re-introduce religions and moral education into the curricula of schools to ensure that pupils acquire
good behaviour in society.
She said the Centre registered under the company's code, has approval from the Ghana Education Service and the Ghana National Association of Private Schools.
The Centre, she added, offers quality and affordable short-term competency-based programmes and trained its students the best practices in
teaching to enable them obtain Diploma and Degree Certificates.
She said it also prepared teachers for the distance education examination of universities and other tertiary institutions.