HISTORY ABOUT ANGEL EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX, Kumasi
The ingenuity of Dr. Kwaku Oteng brought about the establishment of Angel Educational Complex on 7th September, 2004 as a private educational institution. It all began with pupil population of eighty-five (85) made up of thirty-six (36) boys and forty-nine (49) girls. Eight (8) teachers including Mr. S.E. Cobbold as the headmaster and one (1) cook were the pioneer staff who started the school.
With a massive and vigorous capital investment, the complex began on a sound footing with modern state-of-the-art classroom and boarding facilities and the like.
Once established, the complex began to grow with a steady increase in student / pupil population which saw the massive recruitment of professionals to strengthen the increasing demand for the complex. It was in this vain that on the 5th of January, 2005 the Metropolitan Education Office of the Ghana Education Service gave Angel Educational Complex the approval to start a Junior High School.
With this approval, ten (10) teachers were employed, and 256 students made up of 108 boys and 148 girls were enrolled to form the nucleus of the new JHS.
The motto of the complex “Nation Building Through Excellent Training” was cleverly coined to reflect and consolidate the intentions of the founder. As our pride, we support this motto by a visible emblem of two symbolic angels reading a book.
In pursuit of this motto, and because of the excellent progress Angel Educational Complex made during the few years of its existence in both infrastructural development and sound academic policy, the complex applied for extension and establishment of a Senior High School (SHS). The Ghana Education Service did the due diligence by instructing its inspectorate division to assess the complex for its possible upgrading. This was done twice in 2005.
As a result of these assessments, and on the recommendations of the Ghana Education Service, the complex had the birth of a Senior High School on 5th October, 2005 with a Registration number AR/KMA/SC/P66, and categorized as GRADE ‘A’. The Senior High School began with 21 pioneer students and 10 teachers.
Since the inception of the complex, there has been a progressive growth of pupil and student population but this is well controlled to an appreciable level to maintain quality and good standards.
The complex undergoes a continuous infrastructural and human resource capacity development with an appreciable attrition rate to maintain excellence and quality delivery. These are the dynamics that make the complex distinct, outstanding and progressive.
The complex is now a fully-fledged educational center which can boast as one of the best state-of-the-art, ambient educational environment in Ghana which reflects positively in the outcome of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at the Junior High School (JHS) and Senior High School (SHS) levels respectively.
Angel Educational Complex Vision
To be the market leader in a competitive environment to enhance the envisioned quality education at both basic and secondary levels thereby contributing significantly to the socio-economic needs of Ghana.
Angel Educational Complex Mission
To provide quality education aimed at sincere delivery by intelligently directing and skillfully executing a programme of training of individuals to fit properly into society whilst enhancing staff enrichment to be socially responsible for nation building.
In all, 38 staff members among whom were in the Kindergarten, Primary, Junior High and the Senior High Schools were rewarded.
The well-attended award ceremony saw the presence of pupils and student body, members of the non-teaching and teaching staff and a large number of parents who have their wards at the schools.
Held in Kumasi, the items presented to the deserving staff members included DVD Players, Television sets, Laptop computers, Flat Screen Television sets and a vehicle.
The items are estimated at a cost of GH¢40, 000.00 with the vehicle alone costing GH¢14, 000.00.
The first eight staff members received DVD players with ten of them receiving television sets. Eleven of them received rLG laptop computer with seven of them possessing Flat screen television sets by reward.
Assistant Head Teacher of the Angel Primary School, Mr Daniel Omane-Agyekum received a brand new Toyota Corolla as the ultimate prize for emerging the overall best worker of the school.
Aged 58 and having had 35 years of teaching experience, Mr Omane-Agyekum has been among the first teaching staff members employed since the inception of the school for the past seven years.
With dint of hard work, perseverance, visionary ideas and positive attitude towards work, the entire school is a witness to his servitude for establishing a benchmark of superstardom for himself.
For his self-renounce example, he was congratulated by the Chairman of the Angel Primary School’s Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), Mr Johnson Armah; the JHS PTA Chairman, Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed and the Board Chairman of the Angel Cluster of Schools, Dr S.K. Amponsah.
The Founder and President of the Angel Educational Complex, Dr Kwaku Oteng who presented the vehicle to Mr Omane-Agyekum congratulated all other staff members who received their awards.
He commended them for having distinguished themselves for their unique roles played in the affairs of the school and asked that other staff members who could not be rewarded took a close glance to them as role models.
He indicated that the school which was established for the past seven years with 80 pupils at the first enrolment had improved with over 2000 as current enrolment and 220 as teaching and non-teaching staff.
He shared with the gathering that he had always supported development and that he saw people who also shared his sentiment as special people, hence showing appreciation in kind for their merit.
According to him through the hard work of staff, final year pupils of the JHS and the final year students of the SHS, had score 100 per cent in their BECE and WASSCE respectively.
Emphasising the fruitful results of the WASSCE, he said more than 100 SHS students of the Angel SHS got admission to the University of Ghana, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and other tertiary institutions this year for the 2011/2012 academic year.
Dr Oteng, who also owns Angel Fm, a Kumasi-based radio station and the Angel Herbal Ministries however; advised the pupils and the students to continue to study hard and even do it better than their predecessors.
“Studying hard by making a difference should be the hallmark after knowing the niti gritis of education”, he stated.
