By Jones Anlimah
Kpando Senior High School in the Kpando Municipality of the Volta Region has launched its 70th anniversary celebrations with calls for infrastructure and logistical support. Inadequate infrastructure and logistical constraints remain a major challenge to academic work at the school.
Teachers and students at the school struggle daily to deal with the few teachers’ common room, classrooms, furniture, and other essential facilities on campus.
The 70th-anniversary launch was under the theme, “Quality Education: A Collective Responsibility”.
Kpando Senior High School was established in 1953 to provide second-cycle education to the people of Kpando and its surrounding towns. Since its establishment, the school has provided the country with several human resources who are working in various sectors of the economy. The current student population of the school stands at 3,498.
Despite the successes chalked up by the school over the years, adequate infrastructure continue to remain a challenge for the school. This, according to school authorities, is impeding quality education delivery.
At the launch of the school’s 70th anniversary at Kpando in the Kpando Municipality of the Volta region, the Headmaster of the school, Mr. Charles Evans Apreku, said that despite the challenges confronting the school, it continues to chalk up remarkable successes.
He appealed to the government through the Ministry of Education and benevolence organisations, as well as the school’s Old Student Associations, to come to their aid and to turn the fortunes of the school around.
“The school needs 18 units classroom blocks. We hope that the 18 units if added, will let us cease the shift system. We also need a new boy’s dormitory block and a renovation of the existing one,” he appealed.
“The school will urgently need about 30 desktop computers to enable our students be able to write the upcoming WASSCE. So even if they are used computers, it is ok. This one is a special appeal to all of us seated here,” he added.
Past students of the school have been instrumental in the provision of facilities to enhance teaching and learning in the school.
The President of the Kpando Senior High School Old Students Association (KOSA), Mr. Kwaku Bansah, said the Association will soon deliver to the school a Robotic and Cyber Security Centre and also refurbish the ICT Centre to promote the study of science and technology at the school.
“The Old Student Association has decided to invest in three major projects that we refer to as 70th Anniversary Legacy Projects. These are the Science Academy of the school. That is the base for the National Science and Math Quiz, a Robotic Center and National Cyber Security Center,” he said.
Mr Bansh added, “Legacy projects are supposed to go into the future and move with technological developments.”
The school’s 70th anniversary Central Planning Committee Chairman, Mr. Elias Kofi Arku, said preparations are underway towards successful celebrations and called on old students both home and abroad to come on board to help raise the status of the school.