Mrs Angelina Kutin Tandoh, Principal of the Saint Teresa's College of Education, has appealed to the government, the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders and sympathizers to assist the college to surmount its infrastructure inadequacies.
She said staff and students have been constrained by facilities for academic work especially dormitories and residential accommodation for the teaching staff, majority of whom reside outside the college.
Mrs Tandoh said this during the second congregation of the college on Saturday during which 148 students graduated with Diploma in Basic Education, a certificate awarded by the Institute of Education, University of Cape Coast.
It was under the theme, "ICT in Teacher Education: The Role of the Female Teacher".
She urged stakeholders to consider expanding students' dormitories in view of the full take-off of the tertiary programme and to enclose dormitories to accord students privacy.
Mrs Tandoh appealed to the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) and the Ghana Book Trust to assist in the refurbishment of the college library, the science laboratory, to reconstruct its access road and build a multi-purpose auditorium.
She said the college suffers from encroachment and activities of intruders with the compound becoming a thoroughfare for neighbouring communities, criss-crossing the campus with impunity.
Mrs Tandoh said the number of defecation and theft cases as well as assault and near-rape.
She said some recalcitrant commercial drivers and traders had turned the compound into an "inland port" to off-load and distribute food items from the hinterland.
She commended the Hohoe Municipal Assembly for responding favourably to the college's distress call by donating 50 bags of cement towards its fencing project, which is at stand still for lack of funds and appeal to philanthropists to come to their aid.