President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said, the free senior high school (SHS) policy which was administered by his administration has proved to be a success and must be sustained by government as a permanent feature of our educational system.
According to Graphic Online, he said the performance of free SHS students in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) had shown that the government was upholding quality in the implementation of the policy.
“A look at the WASSCE results of the first batch of the free SHS graduates, the Akufo-Addo graduates, and those whose results have just been released gives further evidence of why the free SHS policy has been a success so far,” he stated.
President Akufo-Addo said he was very proud of the of the results of the policy through which five years after the implementation of the policy, has guaranteed a minimum of SHS education for 1.6 million Ghanaian children.
Speaking at the Anniversary of Tamale Senior High School (TAMASCO), he mentioned that in 2017, the government launched the free SHS policy, with the aim of increasing access, lifting financial burden off parents, among other things.
President Akufo-Addo (2nd from left) being assisted by Dr Bawumia (left) and the headmaster of Tamasco.
“There were some who described it as a waste, some said it would destroy our Ivy League schools and some also indicated that the policy was going to compromise the quality of SHS education. None of these happened and I am sure they have eggs on their faces now, or should have,” President Akufo-Addo said.
He spoke on the government’s commitment to invest more in education in other to empower every Ghanaian and meet the human resource needs of the country, saying that the most efficient way to create a society of opportunities that would guarantee the future of the country was to invest more in education.
Source; www.graphiconline.com
