for 546 certificate ‘A’ teachers, and 586 untrained teachers. Two hundred and thirty-one (231) untrained teachers are also on a sandwich programme for certificate ‘A’. There are 43 teaching staff members, comprising 36 men and 7 women. The college has seen impressive academic record over the years and have trained about eight thousand teachers, a good number of whom have served or are serving in other capacities as public servants, lawyers, accountants, lecturers, politicians, business executives, traditional rulers and media practitioners. The college has a proud record in sports, for instance, in 1963, the college played the Government Secondary Technical School at Achimota School in the finals for the Presidential Trophy. The college emerged as the first runner-up. In 2007, the college emerged the overall champion in the Ashanti/Brong-Ahafo (ASHBA) Sports Competition. In 2008, it became the first runner-up in the ASHBA Sports Competition. Berekum college places emphasis on discipline, maintenance of plants and structures, and environmental cleanliness. Most of the infrastructural facilities were built in the fifties. In the seventies, some extension works were undertaken. The Government of Ghana with assistance from Kreditantstallt FÜr Wiederaufbau (KfW) completed some major rehabilitation and constructional works in the college in July, 2000. Within the same period, the Managing Director of Asuo Bomosadu Timbers and Sawmills (ABTS), Berekum donated a 7,000-gallon capacity water reservoir to the college to solve the acute water problem. Under the GETFund, the college has been provided with a modern one-storey Library Complex as well as a 12-Unit Classroom Block. References Colleges of Education in Ghana Brong-Ahafo Region Educational institutions established in 1953 1953 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony)