Over the past 50 years, the Suhum Senior High Technical School (SUTESCO) has turned out about 15,000 educated people who are occupying positions in various sectors of the economy and contributing their quota to national development.
Established in 1963 as a boy’s school by the first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, with 71 students, grouped in three classes; A, B and C and10 teachers, the school, located in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District in the Eastern Region, was the first secondary technical school.
In 1968, the first batch of 22 students wrote the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level Examination. Out of the number six qualified for the sixth form and were enroled in other schools since the school did not initially have a sixth form. It also lacked teaching staff and equipment.
Currently, the school has a student population of about 1,850, with 86 teachers and 75 non-teaching staff. SUTESCO is now a mixed school and has a female student population of 300.
Speaking at the launch of the school’s 50th anniversary, the Headmaster, Mr Kwabena Kwakye Yeboah, said over the years, the academic performance of the school had improved tremendously, adding that the 2012 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results of students was the best in recent times.
Mr Yeboah called on stakeholders working on the main Nsawam–Apedwa Road, to expedite action on the project, since the dusty road had affected the school’s environment and the excessive dust was affecting the health of the students, teachers and the entire school community.
He also said the access road to the school was in a deplorable state and needed rehabilitation, adding that the science laboratory which was started by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), needed to be completed for the students to use for chemistry practicals.
Mr Yeboah also said the staff bungalows need rehabilitation.
Launching the golden jubilee anniversary on the theme: “Enhancing Quality Human Capital Though Secondary/Technical Education”, the President of the Presbyterian University College, Professor Kofi Sraku-Lartey, called on stakeholders to promote senior high/technical education, since it offered a high-quality career development option for the youth in the 21st century.
He further suggested that the technical education system should start from the kindergarten level, adding that “The country’s future depends, to a large extent, on the nation’s ability to continually replace, regenerate and replenishes its skilled workforce”.
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