The Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast (UCC), Rev. Prof Emmanuel Adow Obeng has blamed the increase in social vices and corruption in the country on the lack of intensive moral training at the basic level of education. He therefore urged basic and secondary school administrators to restructure their school activities to aim at providing proper moral grounding for students. The Vice-Chancellor said, the country’s education must not only be geared towards making students only academically conscious but also thically sound and socially alert. Delivering a speech as the guest speaker at a ceremony in Tema, on Saturday he stated that, “the lack of emphasis on morality or the over emphasis of academic excellence in our educational institutions has affected all aspects of our social lives”. He said most people in high positions in the world were perceived to be corrupt despite their high education, adding that, such perceptions indicated that more attempt must be put in building solid academic and moral excellence in the youth at the foundation level. Prof Obeng said moral education has become very important that organizations now look beyond an applicant’s certificate to the content of character and how responsible a person would be when given a job. The Vice-Chancellor noted that for teachers to be effective in their role as promoters of academic and moral excellence, they must be given extensive training on how best to deliver the school curriculum in their classrooms through the use of proven teaching methods. He added that, the UCC was putting up a team of specialists in English, Science, Mathematics and Religion to organize a series of in-service training programmes for basic and secondary school teachers. Source: GNA