ACCRA, Ghana, 5 juin 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On Tuesday 4th of June, the Ambassador of France to Ghana, H.E. Frédéric Clavier, distinguished three Ghanaians from the education sector with the French academic honours at the Residence of France.
The three persons the Ambassador called to receive the academic honors were Mr Robert Atsu Davor, Ressources Centres for French Teaching (CREF) Director of Kumasi; Mr Maurice Kwaku Adjetey, National Coordinator of CREF, and Deputy Director of the department teachers’ training, at the Ghana Education Service and Mr Louis Cobb Gminguole, Director of Francophone Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Education and national correspondent of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). They are for Ghana, as dignified servants of the State and for France, the guarantee of the quality of the cooperation.
All three have been distinguished for their educational task as French teachers, and also for their others responsibilities, such as the training of trainers or the curriculum definition. In this sense, they are an example for all teachers working in schools. Through this recognition, France wants to mark the importance of the French language in Ghana, to accelerate the relationships with the Francophone neighboring countries and the integration of the sub-region. Ghana is an associated member of La Francophonie since2006.
Academic honors are the only distinctions that the Republic of France awards in education. First, to French citizens, when they have distinguished themselves through their work in the vast field of education, but also to foreign personalities whose commitment to service, not to France but to their own country, seems exemplary, while participating in the influence of French culture.