The Acting Principal of the Bolgatanga Midwifery Training College has indicated that despite the school’s efforts to strive for higher heights, a handful of students still find it difficult to pay their fees to complete their programme.
The situation, Mrs Amalba Christian said, often wards-off students’ focus and pushes them off the path of growth.
Speaking at the school’s matriculation ceremony held on April 1st 2022, Mrs Amalba appealed to private individuals, NGOs and other stakeholders in education to always be on hand to support scholarship schemes to assist these students.
“Most of the students from deprived communities find it difficult to pay their school fees after they are offered admission into the college. I’m using this opportunity to appeal to philanthropists, non-governmental organizations and stakeholders to support the brilliant but needy students to pay their fees for management to be able to run the institution smoothly. I would also like to appeal to private individuals with scholarship schemes to assist the students by enrolling them into their schemes to help them complete the program successfully”, she added.
Touching on infrastructural challenges, Mrs Amalba explained that more classrooms and hostel facilities were needed to support the school’s expansion drive.
She said, “I will like to solicit support from stakeholders in education to assist build more classrooms hostel facilities and auditorium to enhance the capacity of admitting more students into the College to train more midwives for the country”.
The ceremony, Mrs Amalba however noted was supposed to be held last year but due to the persistence of the Covid-19 pandemic and ban on social gatherings, it was pushed to this year.
“Post-Basic 11 and DM15 should have been held last year, but due to the ban on social gatherings to minimize the spread of the virus, we are having it this year. The first year diploma students (regular) are 188 and Post-Basic are 16 students and Second-year diploma students are 143, and Post-Basic students are 19 students to be matriculated this year.”
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