The President of the Presbyterian University College has called for collaboration between government and Christian missions for the effective running of schools established by the missions.
To that end, Rev. Professor Emmanuel Adow Obeng called for a roundtable discussion between the government, Christian missions and other stakeholders to chart a way forward on the funding, management and recruitment of staff for mission schools.
He was speaking at a forum organised by the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in Accra to discuss the partnership between the church and government in the area of education and the seeming sidelining of missions by the government in the running of mission schools.
The forum was on the theme: “Our partnership in education; the way forward.”
Rev. Prof. Obeng advocated the crafting of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which expressed a convergence of will between government and the Christian missions, intending a common line of action to which both parties would append their signatures and to which any government in power would be bound.
Providing further strategies on how to strengthen the partnership, Rev. Prof. Obeng called for the establishment of a joint commission to review any partnership agreement signed between both parties.
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Rev. Prof. Obeng said his recommendations were based on the fact that governments over the years had ignored the Christian missions in decision making regarding mission schools when those schools were not established by the government.
He said, for example, that recently the government introduced a major policy to make all colleges of education affiliated to some public universities.