A FORMER Minister of Education, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Ekumfi, has challenged stakeholders in the educational sector to come out with innovative ways to stop students from using the internet to access pornographic materials and other negative information.
According to him, internet has proved worldwide to be the best platform to access credible information that propels human growth and physical development and supplements classroom works.
According to him, the use of internet to access pornographic materials and other negative information on the net by students do not serve any good purpose.
“It is about time stakeholders looked at means to use the internet positively for the benefit of students, their parents and the entire society,” he further stressed.
Prof. Ekumfi gave the advice at the 64th Founders Day and Speech and Prize Giving Day of the Apam Senior High School at Gomoa Apam in the Central Region at the weekend.
It was on the theme: “Discipline in Senior High Schools; Prerequisite for Academic Excellence.”
Professor Ameyaw-Ekumfu, a former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, noted that credible research conducted into the use of internet showed many SHS students in Africa use the internet negatively to explore pornography, instead of looking for credible information to supplement classroom lessons.
In order to overcome this challenge, the former minister called on stakeholders to team up and address the canker.
For her part, Professor Dora Edu Boando of College of Humanities and Legal Studies at the University of Cape Coast called on the students to be disciplined in order not to destroy school properties.
She noted that the relation between discipline and success was very high stressing that if students wanted to pass well and be successful they must be disciplined.
“If the current students take their lessons seriously and avail themselves to the disciplinary measures of the Apam SHS they would be successful just as the many alumni of the school who have made it to the top in all areas of human endeavours,” she advised.
Headmaster of the school, Nana Doku Ewusi X, noted that academic excellence can never be attained where there is no discipline.
According to him, discipline which is being promoted in the school has yielded positive results as the school placed first position in Central Regional Mathematics and Science Quiz competition and also ranked high in cadet and sports competitions in the same region.
He commended the Old Students Association of the school for their enormous contributions towards infrastructure.
He also praised a former Headmistress of the school, Mrs. Esther Hamilton, for introducing cash awards for needy, but brilliant students of the school of which she committed over GHC5,000 for that purpose and also donated 50 bags of rice to the school.
The School Prefect, Ayumah Sandys Seth, asserted that discipline was on course at the school as bullying of juniors which used to be a serious challenge was no more.
The programme was graced by many prominent Gomoa chiefs including Nana Obokuma Atta, Chief of Gomoa Dasum, and an old student, who also presented thousands of Ghana cedis to support needy and brilliant students of the school at the function.
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