Most of the pupil teachers under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) who enrolled for the four-year Distance Education Programme at Colleges of Education in 2007 have dropped out. This follows the Government's termination of their appointment as pupil teachers. Mrs Christina Bampo Henaku, Principal of the Accra College of Education, who announced this, consequently, appealed to the Government to rescind its decision to enable the teacher trainees to continue with their education. "I will appeal to the government to call back to the classroom the affected trainees to enable them take part in the monthly field support programmes and the end of semester examinations to be conducted in August 2010," she said. Mrs Henaku, was speaking at the Second Congregation of the College at the weekend. She urged the government to halt the practice of wholesale distribution of logistics to colleges but conduct individual assessment to satisfy the actual needs of the beneficiaries. Mrs Henaku said her college needed basic amenities such as a Great Hall, a hostel, auditorium, an ultra modern administration block, Mathematics and Science laboratories and appealed to the government to provide them. It should also speed up the construction of a six unit classroom-block, which was being funded by the GETfund. She expressed worry about the resignation of teachers after upgrading themselves because of poor conditions of services and called for the passage of the Colleges of Education Bill to address challenges facing colleges of education. Source: GNA