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Participants register for 58th New Year School
Accra, Jan. 02, GNA - Registration for participation in the
58th Annual New Year School is underway at the Jones Quartey
Building, University of Ghana, Legon.
So far more than 200 participants out of the 500 expected
participants have registered for the School, which
officially opens on Wednesday, January 3.
Preparations for the School have been completed and
officials were assisting participants with registration
formalities and others directed to their hostels.
The week-long extra mural School, organized by the Institute
of Adult Education (IAE), University of Ghana, would reflect
on Ghana's 50 years of nationhood on the theme: "Ghana at
50: Achievements, Challenges and the Future".
This year, the School, which had over the past 57 years
dispassionately discussed matters of national and
international importance would examine key national concerns
since independence, the choices that were made and their
consequences in open sessions, small group meetings and in
informal interactions.
"Discussions at the School would not dwell on the past only.
It is out belief that analysis of our actions in the past 50
years would provide directions for the future," Mr Reuben
Aggor, Acting Director of the Institute told GNA.
President John Agyekum Kufour is expected to officially open
the School at the Great Hall of the University.
The opening session would be followed by the delivery of the
keynote address by Nana (Dr) S.K. B. Asante, Immediate Past
President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and
Omanhene of Asante-Asokore Traditional Area.
Activities to which both registered and non-registered
participants would participate are lectures, discussions and
symposia on "The State of the National Economy 50 Years
after Independence: What next?"
Other topics would be: "Governance Over the Past Five
Decades: Views of the Younger Generation", "Education in the
Past 50 Years: Matters of Concern and Our Values of the Past
50 Years", "Adult Education and National Development" and
“Industrial Relations in Ghana since 1957: Emerging Issues."
Mr Ishmael Parry, Acting Director of the School told GNA
that the choice of English language as means of instruction,
on which some Parliamentarians had expressed concern as a
limiting factor to participate was based on the fact that
English was used for official business in Ghana.
However, he accepted the use of local languages as medium of
communication as pertained in the Metropolitan, Municipal
and District Assemblies to enhance participation, but
pointed out that it would create interpretation problems
considering the number of local languages spoken by
participants.
Mr Parry recalled that a participant, who did not understand
English, brought an interpreter at his own cost and
participants were at liberty to bring their interpreters.
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