The Komenda College of Education (KOMENCO), located in the Central Region’s Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem area, has received praise from Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education, for its great contribution to education and national development.
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He also urged them to keep producing competent, forceful, and confident instructors for growth.
He said, “I have not seen any institution that has produced more excellence than you have.”
When he joined the College’s management to kick off its 75th-anniversary celebrations in Accra, Dr. Adutwum provided the compliment.
The celebration’s topic was “Promoting Sustainable National Development: The Contribution of Komenda College of Education in 75 Years,” and it was set for March 2023.
“We’re also hoping you keep up the approach that over the years you have become known for, developing instructors who are assertive themselves, very confident in themselves, and very competent to pass on the competences that we demand in our 21st century to our potential learners,” Dr. Adutwum added.
The education minister said that during the previous 74 years, the school has served as a training ground for some of the brightest minds in the business and academic communities who have continued to hold aloft the national agenda and make significant contributions to the nation and beyond.
He praised the Methodist Church for being a pillar of change, as well as a valuable partner and supporter of the Ministry of Education and, by extension, the government.
He praised the existing management of the college for the tremendous transformative efforts they were making and gave them instructions to keep producing the kind of assertive, self-assured, and capable instructors that the modern world demands.
“I’m very, very hopeful that KOMENCO will shine more and more as the home that becomes the hope for the young child, the young student, the young woman, for the young man who wants to make a difference in someone’s life, who wants to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or professor at the beginning of their journey with that aspiration coming on, that beautiful girl, to know that a bright career lies ahead of them.
The College, which was first founded in 1948 as an all-male school but began to allow female students in 1952, is currently a mixed-gender school.
In 1948, KOMENCO had 40 all-male pupils; as of the present, there are 1,896 students enrolled there.
820 women and 1,076 men make up the remainder.
The college has made significant contributions to the growth of education in the nation during the course of its 75-year history, according to Reverend Kwasi Nkum Wilson, the college’s principal.
Rev. Wilson gave an explanation of some of the developments that had occurred during his leadership, stating that there had been a significant change in education since 2019 that placed a lot of focus on demonstrative teaching and learning.
Despite the College’s financial weakness, according to Rev. Wilson, it had been able to maintain its personnel and the rules that guided its operations by providing ongoing staff training.
For Staff A, B, and Junior Staff as well as the College’s student leadership, he said, “there has been a continual workshop.”
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He said that the College had made strides, going from a deficit of GH 611,448.73 to a surplus of GH 429,655.58, as well as experiencing significant infrastructural development, including the construction of a Two-Storey Lady’s Block and refurbishment of the College Store and Offices.
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The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church in Ghana, The Most Rev. Dr. Paul Kwabena Boafo, invited all interested parties to help the College advance to a higher platform.