Adisadel College to offer Technical courses shortly

The Adisadel College (Adisco) at Cape Coast would soon introduce Technical subjects into its curricular, the headmaster, Mr. William Kusi-Yeboah, has announced.

He said the new subjects would comprise Technical Drawing, Auto Engineering, Building Construction and Auto Mechanics.

Adisco, established in 1910, currently offers various subjects in General Science, General Arts, Visual Art, and Business.

Speaking at the 105th Speech, Prize-giving and Founder’s day Celebrations of the college, in Cape Coast, at the weekend, Mr. Kusi-Yeboah said an application to that effect was currently receiving attention.

The celebration is on the theme “Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry- a collaborative partnership".

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency later, Mr. Kusi-Yeboah explained that because the General Science Course in the school was biology-biased, students who desired to pursue courses such as Engineering at the tertiary level were rendered handicapped.

He said the introduction of the subjects would give such students a fair playing ground with their colleagues from other schools, which offered the technical courses and also create the opportunity for technical-focused admirers of the school to enroll.

He also explained that the move was very important since it would help bridge the gap between academia and industry by training middle level man power.

Mr. Kusi-Yeboah revealed that some of the buildings at the School's current location were built with help from students, which explained why their annual Founders' Day Service was followed with a “Cement Party" in their honour.

"If we train these students they can also help, at least, to maintain the structures," Mr. Kusi-Yeboah said, and appealed to stakeholders to embrace and solidarize with management for positive response.

On academic affairs, Mr. Kusi-Yeboah announced at the ceremony that the College scored 99.6 per cent pass rate at the 2014 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), while out of a total of 551 candidates presented, 491 had eight passes, 53 had seven passes and four had six passes.

He said the quality of passes from grade A1 to B3 was 62 percent, indicating that majority of candidates would get admission into tertiary institutions.

He stated that a total of 563 candidates had been registered for this year’s exams, for which the management, staff and the candidates themselves, had pledged to score a 100 per cent.

Mr. Kusi-Yeboah indicated that as part of interventions to enhance the academic performance in the school, the frequency of morning parades had been reduced from five to three days in a week to enable students study privately in the morning.

Monitoring had also been intensified, he said, whilst discipline had seen tremendous improvement in the school on the part of both staff and students.

On challenges, he said work on an auditorium, dormitory complex, an eight-unit staff bungalow, and a 12-unit classroom block, which were under the Ghana Education Trust Fund, had stalled and called on the Government to intervene.

He also called for support to beef up security in the school and to acquire equipment for stable power supply.

He, however, expressed gratitude to the Government, the School’s Board and Management, Old Boys, sponsors and other stakeholders and called for continual support.

Rewards were given to outstanding current staff and former staff, as well as students.

GNA