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1/9/2007 |
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By Salifu Abdul-Rahaman
Tuesday, 09 January 2007
THE 58th Annual New Year School ended yesterday with high commendation for the media’s extensive coverage of the activities of the school.
Kofi Siabi-Mensah, Director of the School, said the media support had made it possible for issues raised at the school to be disseminated to the public for further discussion.
He was expressing his views on the school in an interview with the Times yesterday. The school had the theme, ‘Ghana at 50: Achievements, challenges and the future."
Mr. Siabi-Mensah said the relevance of the theme on the eve of Ghana’s 50th anniversary, should interest every citizen and the role of the media in that regard was highly commendable.
Asked whether the school had achieved its purpose, Mr. Siabi-Mensah said that could best be judged by the participants.
He said the school had besides generating themes and issues also created the opportunity for policy makers to make inputs based on the perspective of the school.
This year’s school examined key national concerns since independence, the choices that were made and consequences of those choices in open sessions small group meetings and informal interactions.
The topics discussed included "Fifty years of nationhood: Achievements, challenges and the future’, "The state of the national economy after 50 years of independence, what next?" and "Governance over the past five decades and the challenges for the future: Views of the younger generation."
Others were "Education in the past 50 years: Matters of concern", "Adult education and national development since independence."
The rest were "Our values in the past half country", "Industrial Relations in Ghana since 1957: Emerging Issues," and "Fifty years of Ghana’s involvement in International Affairs."
More than 500 participants including teachers, trade unionist, members of parliament, chiefs and queenmothers, academia, industrialists, politician and other professionals attended the schools.
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