The Ministry of Education clarifies that free secondary school is not under consideration.
The government has implemented free SHS.
The government will relinquish free SHS and charge parents, according to GES DG.
The Ministry of Education's spokesperson responds to news of a review of the Free SHS policy.
The Ghana Education Service is reviewing the government's flagship project, the Free Senior High School policy, according to the Ministry of Education.
According to previous reports, Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), revealed that the government is currently reviewing the Free SHS policy.
The reports added that according to Prof Opoku Amankwah, the review is to determine which benefits of the Free SHS will be relinquished by the government and transferred to parents to pay.
“…we can do the analysis and then come up and say that, ok, to give Raymond quality education, it will cost this much. Within that cost, these are the items in the cost.
“Then we will all put it out there and say this item, we can make do of it, and it will not affect quality, this item, I think we can get parents to pay,” he is said to have told the host of JoyNews Upfront programme, Raymond Acquah.
But in a response from the Deputy Spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, Yaw Opoku Mensah, this assertion is wrong.
“The Ministry’s attention has been drawn to some publications making the rounds which suggest an ongoing review of the Free SHS policy by the GES.
“According to the story, the said review is to determine how much parents can pay so far as the policy is concerned. For purposes of clarity, the Free SHS policy is not under the purported review,” he wrote in a statement made available to GhanaWeb. Com
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