Chairman of the Ghana National Education campaign coalition, Bright Appiah, has accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration of failing to implement what it promised Ghanaians, especially the Free Senior High School programme.
The Free Senior High School programme is the flagship education program by the NPP that seeks to increase access to Secondary Education by removing the burden of paying fees from parents.
Under the policy, the government would foot all bills including feeding fees, tuition fees, and all other charges.
According to Bright Appiah, the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition advised President Akufo-Addo to expand the already existing Senior High Schools in the country in order to accommodate these students since these traditional schools already had lands available for expansion.
He said such a measure would have brought equity in the admission of students into the second cycle schools.
He hinted that the government also failed to listen to the group hence the confusion.
“Right from the implementation stage, the NPP failed to fully make the whole program free. This points to the fact that what government is doing now is what they captured in their manifesto,” he said.
Bright Appiah explained that government's failure to expand the traditional schools has brought about the implementation of the double intake system for new entrants into the country’s public Senior High Schools which is expected to start in September.
The President has, however, explained that the double tracking system will address the growing numbers of students benefitting from the Free SHS policy.
Ghana | atinkaonline.com | Vivian Adu Boatemaa
