FREE DAY SHS: MAHAMA OUTLINES ABOLISHED FEES; OVER 900 TEACHERS TO BE RECRUITED

By Festus A Anim -

President John Mahama has announced that more than 9,000 teachers would be recruited for the Community Day Senior High School across the country. He made the declaration today when he commissioned the Atta Mills Community Day Senior High School at Ekumfi Otuam in the Central Region as the Free Day SHS policy takes off. The school is one of the 200 Community Day Schools promised by the governing party in its 2012 manifesto under the Free SHS policy. Under the policy some approved schools fees would be absorbed by the state. President Mahama said examination fees, entertainment fees, Students Representative Council dues, Science development fees, science and math quiz, library, sports, culture, ICT and co-curricula fees will be absorbed by the government. "As I speak the Minister for Education has already received in its account a total sum of 12.2 million Ghana cedis, which is the amount required for the implementation of the programmes starting this year," the president said. The money will cover the cost of these abolished fees for 320,488 day students for the first term of the 2015/2016 academic year. The breakdown the president announced is as follows: 111,217 first year students, 109,731 second year students and 99,753 third year students. "In addition, the Ministry of Education has received funds and approval to re-foot an additional 9,300 new teachers to staff the new schools that we are commissioning," President Mahama said. However, text books, tuition fees, science resource centres, science laboratories, and computers would not be part of the absorbed fees. Government said a different budget will cater for those ones. 50 schools were to be built by August this year to facilitate the implementation of the policy. But more than a year after the President's announcement, Joy News' checks revealed that not many of the schools have been constructed. Deputy Education Minister, Okudzeto Ablakwa indicated to Joy News contractors working on the projects should be blamed for the delay. They have been resourced to carry out the projects, he said. He warned that contractors delaying the projects would have their contracts abrogated if they don't expedite works on the projects. He was very certain that at about 150 of the day schools would be completed in October next year. "We will say that by end of our first term, we expect, as the president said, if this was an examination we are receiving a pass mark; we are expecting that we will complete majority of these projects." He described Thursday's commissioning of the Atta Mills SHS as historic. Article 25 of the Constitutional requires that education is made progressively free, and "President Mahama has achieved this feat," he touted. The programme is starting with public day students because most of them fall within the "vulnerable category" and this is "proper targeting", he said. The programme would be extended to cover boarders, he promised. In order not to undermine the policy, schools that intend to charge fees outside the approved ones has to agree on that with the parent-teacher association. Minutes of the program should be sent to the Ghana Education Service for approval. Source: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com |

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