Inaugurating the first community day SHS in the Upper West Region at Lambussie, the capital of the Lambussie-Karni District, last Saturday, the President said apart from quality teachers, the schools also boast facilities compared to others in the most established schools in the country for which reason students must take advantage to learn and pass well.

    The Lambussie Community Day SHS, which is the first to be inaugurated in the whole of the three regions of northern Ghana, is one of the eight of the President's flagship educational project being undertaken in the Upper West Region.
    The school, which has already admitted its pioneer students, can accommodate 1,500 students at full capacity.

    The school, which has already admitted its pioneer students, can accommodate 1,500 students at full capacity.

    It will create opportunities for hundreds of JHS graduates in the deprived district, who otherwise would have dropped out of school to access SHS education.

    The four-level storey edifice has 24 classrooms, two libraries, eight offices, internet facility, laboratories for chemistry, general science, biology, physics and ICT, among other facilities.

    The deprived Lambussie-Karni District, the latest district in the Upper West Region, was carved out from the former Jirapa-Lambussie District in 2008.

    A view of the Lambussie SHS

    It faces challenges in educational infrastructure, a development that affects academic performance in the Basic Education Certificate Examination.

    It was, therefore, little surprise that hundreds of residents that witnessed the inauguration of the SHS praised President Mahama for bringing such a first-class school to the district.

    President Mahama urged the education authorities to make supervision a top priority in order to achieve the expected academic standards.

    He said the intention of the government was to add boarding facilities to the community day SHS as well as teachers’ accommodation.

    He reiterated the government's commitment to complete all the 123 schools under construction and eventually the 200 the NDC promised in its 2012 election manifesto.

    Other initiatives
    He said the government was also upgrading seven existing SHSs in the Upper West Region under the Secondary Education Improvement Programme.

    Each of the schools have been given GH¢ 700, 000 to improve on infrastructure facilities.

    In addition, GH¢480,000 have been provided each of the schools for quality improvement initiatives.

    President Mahama said 107 improvement works had been undertaken in other public SHSs in the region.

    He indicated that the Ministry of Education had absorbed seven private SHSs in the regions bringing the number of public SHSs in the region to 34.