Mr. Ibrahim Boakye, Head of Department for the Visual Arts Department in Techiman Senior High School (TESS), has called on all stakeholders in Education to consider a visual Arts programme to be offered in all Senior High schools to promote holistic training for students and promote job creation for the socio-economic developments of the country.
Mr. Boakye made the call at the 60 years anniversary celebration of TESS at Techiman in the Bono East Region under the theme: “Delivering Quality Education for life in our Challenging Society, the Role of Stakeholders.”
He explained that the course help students to bring out hidden ideas and deals with reading that develop the brain and expressed worry about how people continue to despise the course and think that only low intelligence or those who were not good academia offer Visual Arts Programme.
Mr. Boakye stated that such students come out with possible solutions to problems and called on stakeholders in education to provide avenues to develop people to have interest in studying course that could help contribute to the development of the nation.
He said society must continue to see the importance of studying the course because arts people were secure in jobs and promote tourism of the national heritage to the international community.
Miss Yasmin Abdulrazak, second-year student of the Visual arts department, expressed her passion for the programme and that she had the hope that she could continue at the tertiary level to gain more knowledge on the course to enable her to produce the needed results for society.
Miss Yasmin has a passion in drawing and using natural objects to obtain ideas from the environment, and has been able to come out with hat and wallet.
The school established in 1963 has over 3,000 students with over 200 teaching and non-teaching staff.