The Regent University College of Science and Technology has renovated the defunct computer laboratory of the Presbyterian Senior High and Technical School with internet connectivity.
The computer laboratory was built by the Parent-Teacher Association of the school some years ago but due to lack of finance the project was abandoned until late 2012 when the President of the Regent University, Professor Emmanuel K. Larbi, visited the school and promised to renovate it.
At a handing over ceremony on Thursday, Professor Larbi said his decision to support the school was as a result of his passion for education.
He said though today’s world was fiercely being controlled and dominated by information and communication technology, majority of high schools in the country were lagging behind the information technology age.
He expressed happiness that the school, which had been operating without a computer laboratory and library for some years now, could now boast of a computer laboratory.
Professor Larbi said the school was facing many challenges and all could be solved if everybody, especially citizens of Larteh, showed more commitment and assume greater responsibility.
“I know that many people in the past had contributed in different ways to meet certain needs in the school, but there is still more to be done,” he said.
Mr Samuel Asamoah Agyare, Headmaster of the School, commended Professor Larbi on his contributions to the school and urged other citizens from the area to emulate him and come to the aid of the school.
He said the school began as a Middle Boarding School in 1930 under the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and later became an Experimental Junior Secondary School in 1979.
Mr Agyare said it was turned into a Day Secondary School in 1985 and finally the Presbyterian Senior High and Technical School in 1989.
He said the school was facing a lot of challenges including dormitory for both boys and girls, classrooms to cater for the ever increasing student population and accommodation for staff members.
He commended the Akuapem Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana for providing the headmaster with a four-wheel saloon car to facilitate his administrative work.
Mr Agyare commended the Akuapem Rural Bank for providing the school with a bore hole and the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC) for supporting the school with 15 flat screen computers and accessories, a projector, scanner and a printer.
