Mrs Angelina Kutin Tandoh, Principal of the Saint Teresa's College of Education (TERESCO), has reminded fresh students that serious academic work can not be interspersed with chaos and indiscipline towards achieving excellence.
She has, therefore, urged students to be law abiding and "allow TERESCO to pass through them and not the opposite".
Mrs Tandoh said this at the matriculation of 165 fresh students for the 2010/2011 Diploma in Basic Education Programme, in Hohoe at the weekend.
The College admitted 146 students for the 2009/2010 period.
Mrs Tandoh reminded them that their forebears had sacrificed their time, money, prayers and other resources to bring the College to its present standards and distinction.
She said it behoved the students to strive harder to "better or maintain the standards" as a befitting tribute to the institution, and not
compromise its academic excellence.
The Principal said Colleges of Educations were formation and reformation avenues structured to train dedicated and trustworthy Senior
High School graduates into professional teachers, who would keep the educational enterprise alive and boost the country's human resource
requirements for accelerated development.
Mrs Tandoh appealed to major stakeholders, especially the Government, to provide the requisite infrastructure to meet the current status of Diploma awarding Colleges of Education to facilitate the admission of more students, who were qualified but left out for lack of facilities.
Mr Prosper Coffie Addo, Vice Principal, administering the Oath of Matriculation and Obedience, urged the students to be studious and conform to all statutes, regulations and rules of TERESCO.
Ms Grace Caesar Agbasi, on behalf of the students, pledged their collective resolve to abide by the statutes of the oaths and maintain
quality academic excellence devoid of chaos and indiscipline.