A
re-launching ceremony of the Bechem Business College has taking place at the
schools premises at Bechem in the Tano South District of the Brong Ahafo
Region.
Bechem
Business Collage which was established in 1972 has by dint of hard work got its
standard raised and offers a diploma certificate in Business.
The
re-lunching of the school entails the establishment of a Junior and Senior High
Schools to train pupils and students to feed the Collage and to further raise
its status to a polytechnic level which has already been applied for over the
year.
Mr.
Kwame Obeng Fosu the principal of the collage hinted that the
school fees of the Senior High School would be GHC 200.00 per term and what is
special about the school is that as part of this school fees the Senior High
School department would make it compulsory for every student to be trained in
mushroom, snails, grass cutters and soap production in the first term of
enrolment.
This
innovation Mr. Obeng Fosu said is intended to make BEBUSCO, be assured that
poverty has run away from your home and by so doing poverty would run away from
Bechem township and its environs.
Mr.
Obeng Fosu thanked the Omanhene of
Bechem Nana Fosu Gyeabour Akoto II for releasing a 50 acres land to the school for its intended objective
of becoming a university very soon and concluded by soliciting God guidance for
the school to rise again.
In
a speech the co-coordinator of 2nd
cycle school and private schools division of the Tano South District
Directorate of Education Mr. Kingsford Folkuo – Boahen said the Bechem Business
Collage has been in existence for so many years
and has produced many graduates but recently, the good standard of BEBUSCO
has fallen and this is the more reason why all stakeholders should come on
board to uplift the good image of BEBUSCO.
Mr.
Fokuo-Boahen said from global and national perspectives, the provision of
Technical and Vocation and Education and Training (TVET) is view as necessary
intervention in attempts to empower people, reduce and realize a millennium
Development Goals.
The
logic Mr. Fokuo-Boahen said is that, if people, especially the youth are
equipped with employable skills with which they can access labour market, then
the incidence of unemployment, poverty and other undesirable consequences of
social and economic exclusion would be reduced.
Mr.
Fokuo-Boahen said the mission of the Ministry of Education is to provide
education to all Ghanaians at all levels to enable them to acquire skills that
will assist them to develop their potentials, to be productive, to facilitate
poverty reduction and to promote socio-economic growth and said national
development and Educational policy is the principles and government
policy-making in an educational shed as well as the collection of rules and
laws that govern the operations of Educational systems. He said educational
policy focuses on practical consequences of educational policy decision and
alternatives.
Mr.
Fokuo-Boahen assured the management of the college of the possible maximum
support of the District Directorate of Education to improve on the enrollment,
teacher quality and good academic and moral performance and urged all
stakeholders to also try and dedicate their maximum support to bring back the
good image of the College.
The
Tano South District Chief, Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba, in a speech said he deemed
it a pleasure for the opportunity given him to re-launch this great school
Bechem Business College.
Hon.
Anaba said Human Capital is key to unlocking the potentials of any country and
this cannot be achieved without access to quality education and said meanwhile,
the overall aim of education cannot also be met without private sector
participation and that is why we must congratulate the founder of Bechem Business
Collage for the bold initiative.
Hon.
Anaba said it is in the light of this that the government and for that matter
the District Assembly is committed to expanding educational infrastructure
across the educational structure in the District of which the latest is the
Derma Community Senior High School which is under construction in the District.
Hon.
Anaba said he considered himself the right person to give a brief history of
the college since he did his internship at BEBUSCO in 2008. He said the college
was the second Business College in the Brong Ahafo Region with registration No.
GES/BAR/B/2 and between 1975 and 1983, BEBUSCO was the leading Business College
and was competing with Solomon Commercial College at Koforidua in the Eastern
Region for the National first position.
Hon.
Anaba said, in the Brong Ahafo Region of late, the fortunes of the college have
dwindled, many people have forgotten about BEBUSCO but the school has played a
very important and positive role in the development of Ghana as many of its
graduates are found all over the country some of whom are accountants,
secretaries and self-employed.
Hon.
Anaba said the government wishes for more of such colleges that would build
capacity of our youth with employable skills to enhance their living standards
and with this re-launch additional courses and programmes have been introduced
which include primary and Senior High which will start in the next Academic
year.
Hon.
Anaba concluded by saying that the government and the Tano South District
Assembly shall support BEBUSCO to regain its position and become the number one
Business College in Ghana and on behalf of the Tano South Disrict Assembly
promised to construct a 3-unit classroom block for the college and this he
believed would help enhance teaching and learning at the college.
The
Chairman for the occasion, Nana Awua Boadi- Nifahene of Bechem Traditional Area, in his closing
remarks thanked all who have in one way or the other helped to make the
re-launching ceremony a success and called on all stakeholders to play their
part to make the college regain its past glory and also raise its status to a
tertiary level.
Nana
called on parents to enroll their wards at the college and entreated the
management and staff of the college to dedicate themselves to the noble vision
of the college.
