[ 2015-11-29 ]

No amount of vandalism will save dismissed teacher trainees – UCC
The director of the Institute of Education at the
University of Cape Coast Prof. Fred Ocansey has
stated the institution is unperturbed by pockets
of vandalism and social media intimidation being
used by students affected by its new policy
regulating academic performance in colleges of
education in Ghana.

Per the new policy, teacher trainee students who
fail a paper after re-sitting an examination is
either dismissed or re-enrolled as a first year
student.

This new policy has led to the dismissal of
hundreds of teacher trainees from the various
colleges of education in Ghana. The affected
students have expressed displeasure over the
directive.

The Mampong Technical College of Education in the
Ashanti region has been shut down over fears that
the 200 students dismissed were engineering plans
to set the institution ablaze.

Prof. Ocansey in a speech delivered on his behalf
by Dr. Eric Anane, a faculty member of the
Institute of Education of UCC, during the 4th
Matriculation ceremony organised by the Methodist
College of Education (METHCOE) Akyem Asene-Aboabo,
Oda on Saturday, said the new policy has the
blessing of the Education Ministry, the council of
tertiary education and all other relevant
stakeholders of education.

“No amount of social media intimidation or
vandalism, though I know you here at METCOE will
not do that can save you,” he served
notice.

He therefore used the occasion to advise the
students to be serious with their books to avert
any such unpleasant occurrence.

On his part, Rt. Rev. Kwame Baffour Kyei, Bishop
of the Akyem Oda diocese of the Methodist Church
and the council chairman of METCOE speaking on
behalf of the Chancellor of the school and the
presiding bishop of the Methodist Church, Most
Rev. Awotwe Pratt assured the students of the
continuous support of the Methodist church for the
school.

He advised the students to see teaching as a
vocation more than a profession so that they can
embrace the path they have chosen in life well and
to impact positively into the lives of the
children they will be teaching after school.

"Students who pass here with the aim of passing
through to become teachers and later find other
jobs are those who often fail,” he said.

Source - Starrfm

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