Youth empowerment through education is key to achieving meaningful development in the country, Mr Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi, Deputy Eastern Regional Minister said on Tuesday.
He said as a result, Government and stakeholders must focus on skill and technical development of the youth.
Mr Terlabi made the observation at the 14th speech and prize giving day at the St. Martins Senior High School at Adoagyiri near Nsawam held under the theme: “Empowering the Youth through Holistic Education - the Role of Stakeholders.”
The Deputy Minister said because of the importance the Government attached to skill development, it had secured 70 million US dollars World Bank loan to provide the requisite skill training and knowledge acquisition for the youth in the formal sector.
He therefore on stakeholders in education and other sectors such as the Parent-Teacher Associations, to support the Government in its effort to improve teaching and learning in the education sector.
Mr Joseph Cudjo Atsuvi, Headmaster of the school, appealed to the Ghana Education Service to provide the school with an additional boarding facility for girls in order to increase the intake of girls.
He also called the Municipal Assembly, the old students association and other organizations to help the school to complete a sanitation project.
The school was established in September 1966 with 92 boys at the Catholic Conference Centre at Adoagyiri and later moved to its present location.
He said in 1971 the first batch of girls was admitted as day students making the school the first Catholic mixed secondary school in the country.
Mr Atsuvi said currently the school has a student population of 1,435.