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Ghana: Coca-Cola Launches National Essay Competition
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Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Stephen Odoi-Larbi
Soft drink giants, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana Limited, together with other corporate partners on Tuesday launched 'The Coca-Cola Essay Writing Competition' to deepen its commitment of improving academic excellence in the country.
The competition seeks to encourage students at the Junior High Schools to improve upon their reading and writing skills so as to help them and to contribute to the general improvement of education in the country.
The competition also aims to position the Bottling Company as partners involved in their corporate and social investment effort as good corporate citizens in the country.
Speaking at the launch of the programme, Madam Angelina Baiden Amissah, Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Sports, lauded the organizers of the competition for putting together such initiative to enhance the speaking and writing skills of students at the basic school in the country.
She implored students to consider the 'Queens Language' as a subject to be studied with full attention, as will be done to Mathematics, Integrated Science or Social Studies.
According to her, the government is very much aware of the importance of education to the development of the nation and is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that proficiency in English in the various schools is on the ascendancy.
She, however, urged the Ghana Education Service (GES) to use all the means at their disposal to bring schools that are not interested in the competition on board and to encourage them to enter in order to benefit from the competition's impact on students.
On his part, Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director General of GES, stressed the need for parents to encourage their wards to take part in the competition since it would afford them the opportunity to improve on their writing and speaking skills.
"There is no gain saying of the fact that one needs to appreciate that quality formal education can be achieved when the standard of English Language is raised through effective teaching", he said.
Public Affairs and Communication Manager of TCCBCGL, Mr. Ike Cudjoe said the company's main commitment in initiating such an idea is to "deepen academic excellence in the country and to inculcate in the students the quest of academic and linguistic excellence".
According to him, this year's competition would witness the publishing of examiners report to highlight recurring errors that run through the essays and their corrected version in order to serve as a guide to students who would be participating in subsequent competitions.
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Prizes for this year's competition have been more attractive than previous years to reward the participants and winners, as well as their respective schools.
The topic for this year's competition is: "The hosting of CAN 2008 brought lots of benefits to the country. Describe five of these benefits which will be published as an article in the Junior Graphic".
The competition has been in existence for six years running. Previous winners include Joseph Gyamfi Junior, Holy Child Roman Catholic Junior Secondary School, Tema (2003), Efua Nuamah-Thompson, University of Cape Coast Junior Secondary School (2004), Abdul Mummin, Osu Home Junior Secondary School (2005), Adua Biasongo, Weweso M/A Junior Secondary School, Kumasi Metro (2006) and Korantemaa Owusu Darko, University of Ghana Basic School (2007).
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