Non-Governemntal Organisations in the Upper West Region have  called on government to support district assemblies in the region to provide accommodation for teachers in deprived areas.
    
The NGOs which include The SNV Netherlands, Plan Ghana and ActionAid Ghana also appealed to the University of Education, Winneba, to restructure its Distance Learning Progamme to coincide with vocation of schools to improve teacher/pupil contact hours at school.
     
The NGOs pledged to help sensitize community members on the value of education and organise in-service training for untrained and trained teachers as well as circuit supervisors to improve education.
    
The district has enrolment rate of 96 per cent, teacher-pupil ratio of 1.56, 50 kindergartens with seven trained teachers, 59 untrained teachers and a shortage of 80 trained teachers.
    
There are also 40 primary schools in the district, with 91 trained teachers, 57 untrained teachers, a shortage of 140 teachers, 59 trained teachers, 18 untrained teachers handling 26 Junior High Schools that required 130 teachers.
    
Total enrolment stands at 16,096 children, dual desks available are 4820 and dual desk needed is 2487 while 104 schools are dilapidated.
    
At the BECE the district scored 41.97 per cent for the 2006/2007 and 47.9 percent for 2007/2008.
    

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