Akatsico in need of residential, academic facilities

Akatsi College of Education aka Akatsico is in dire need of infrastructure in the areas of Lecture Halls and Hall of Residence for The Students to speed up teaching and learning.

The Training College established in 1963 with just 42 all male students and teaching staff of 4 including the principal has now grown to close to 1,500 students and 89 both and teaching non staff strength with little investment in its infrastructure.

According to the Principal of the school, John Engelbert Seddoh the College with current population needs “an expansion in both the residential and academic facilities for the students”.

According to him, The Government has planned to assist in that direction to decongest The School but COVID-19 has truncated the process and “it means we’ve to wait for a long time”.

In the area of water, Mr. John Engelbert Seddoh appealed for more boreholes, “at least two more in addition to other 2 which are working effectively”.

He said, the first-year students are fully back to campus but both the second- and third-year students are alternating as the School deployed online learning facilities in addition to face-to-face to avoid overcrowding.

The Principal made this known at a ceremony on the school premises at Akatsi where Melcom Care Foundation commissioned and handed over five (5) modern washroom facilities to the school.

Akatsi College of Education was first established as Akatsi Training College on 1 October 1963. It was however officially opened on 25 October 1963 with 42 all male students and teaching staff of 4 including the principal.

Akatsi College of Education (AKATSICO) is in the Volta Region of Ghana and is along the main Accra-Aflao road, about thirty kilometers east of the lower Volta Bridge at Sogakofe.

The government of Ghana at the time had decided to open more teacher training colleges in order to train more teachers to augment the teacher population of the country.

Some of these new colleges opened in the Volta Region at the time were at Dzodze, Ho, Anloga, Shia, Dabala and Akatsi.

Akatsi Training College was to be established in the deserted corrugated ted iron sheets structures of Taylor Woodrow Construction Firm. Taylor Woodrow Construction Firm was the construction firm that constructed the Akatsi – Denu section of the Accra – Aflao road. They left behind a road camp with uncompleted buildings.

Mr. Seth Kwabla Ahiable was appointed the first principal of the college.