GTUC won the enviable award for over six years of excellent delivery of quality education in Africa.

This comes just weeks after GTUC picked up the keenly contested and prestigious Platinum Award for “Quality Education in Africa” at this year’s Business Initiative Direction (BID) Quality Award in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Joe Ghartey, who made the call, explained that there were equally good schools that could compete with Mfantsipim SHS considering the current educational system in the country.

Professor D. D. Kuupole said teacher education had the potential to put quality into the educational system and also offer learners experiences that would shape knowledge and skills for future development.

“We are ambassadors of this noble service so we should not do anything that will tarnish the image of our dear service. Let us be proud of our service and uphold its good name at all time”, he said.

Mr. Richard Twumasi-Ankrah, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, said at the 10th Annual General Meeting of the Rubber Outgrowers and Agents Association (ROAA) at Agona-Nkwanta on Saturday.

This represents a profit before tax growth of 521 per cent over 2011 while profit after tax growth was 696 per cent as against what was recorded in 2011 as a profit of GH¢ 31.07 million. Profit after tax for 2012 was GH¢ 142.1 million as against GH¢ 17.9 million recorded in 2011.

This was contained in a press statement issued by the Bank of Africa and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Saturday.