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History of Labone Senior High School

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Mon, 11 May 2020 14:45:31 +0000

Labone Senior High School was started in January 1947 at La “Abormi” as La Bone College. The motto was then “Think And Fly”. The name La Bone College was first changed in November 1957 to Ghana College. Currently, it is known as Labone Senior High School. Labone SHS has led in many inter school sports [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: Krobo Girls SHS

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:56:12 +0000

In 2016 Krobo Girls SHS celebrated 90 years of Excellence in Girls’ Education. Krobo Girls’ Senior High School was founded by female Scottish Missionaries in March 1927, as a Middle School for girls. A two-year teacher training college for women was added to the girls school in 1944 on experimental basis under the accelerated plan [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: Saint Augustine’s College (Part 2)

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:49:39 +0000

On January 15, 1935, the foundation stone was laid by the then Governor, Arnold Hodson and blessed by Bishop Porter with support from the Bishops of Keta, Navrongo and Kumasi. Construction work progressed steadily and almost a year after, the training college was transferred to Cape Coast. A year and week after the laying of [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: LEGON PRESEC (Part 2)

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:19:29 +0000

PRESEC was located in Odumase – Krobo till 1st of September, 1968 when it was rehoused at its new permanent location at Legon – Mile 9, north-east of the University of Ghana. At the new campus it continued as a boys’ boarding secondary school until the mid 1970s when the sixth form was upgraded to the National Science [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: LEGON PRESEC

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:00:13 +0000

PRESEC – Legon is currently 81 years and from Odumase to Legon, still Ghana’s finest secondary school for boys. From a humble enrolment of 16 pioneer-students and 4 tutors in 1938, the current population is 3,870 boys, with 70 classrooms, 178 teachers, 75 non-teaching staff and 20 national service personnel. The cry of the Presbyterian [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: Abuakwa State College (Final Part)

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:55:03 +0000

THE NAMING OF THE SCHOOL When the time came to get the School a fitting and permanent name, it was very strongly suggested by some of the leading chiefs of the State, that is, the influential members of the Okyeman Council, that it should be named after its benefactor, the Okyenhene, thus “Nana Sir Ofori [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: Abuakwa State College

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:43:39 +0000

Abuakwa State College is a co-ed second cycle institution in Kibi in Eastern Region of Ghana. The school was established in 1936 by three elders of the Methodist Church at Asafo-Akyem as a preparatory institution to prepare Ghanaian students who wanted to sit the then Junior Cambridge Examination. It was relocated to Kyebi in 1967 [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: Aburi Girls SHS

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:26:49 +0000

Aburi Girls Senior High School was formally established as a secondary school for girls in the year 1946. However, its origin dates as far back as 1852, when the Basel Mission opened a school at primary level for girls at their mission station inside the town. The primary school continued until its takeover by the [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: Osei Tutu SHS

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:22:23 +0000

The Methodist church established the school in 1940, apparently to fill a vacuum left by the establishment of Mmofraturo Girls Boarding School. The Church needed a middle boarding school for only boys. The school started in a located directly opposite Freeman College, Kumasi, Ghana. Within a few years, the enrolment shot up and as a [...]

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History of Senior High Schools in Ghana: Holy Child SHS

Henry Kwadwo Amoako — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:14:31 +0000

Following the establishment of Mfantsipim School (Methodist) and Adisadel College (Anglican) in 1876 and 1910 respectively, the Catholic community in Ghana were eager for the establishment of Roman Catholic-based education in Ghana. On 15 January 1935, Bishop Porter blessed and led a ceremony for the laying of the foundation-stone of St. Augustine’s College, which was [...]

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