[ 2016-04-26 ]

Mahama’s free education extends to boarding school students

The free senior high school (SHS) education policy
of government has been expanded to cover boarding
school students, President John Dramani Mahama has
revealed.


A budgetary allocation of GH¢60 million has been
made available for the policy expansion.

President Mahama disclosed this on Tuesday, April
26 in the Tano South District of the Brong Ahafo
Region, where he commissioned the sixth community
day model school by his government.

The commissioning was part of the ‘Accounting to
the People’ tour of the Region.

Day students in Ghana’s second cycle
institutions have benefitted from government’s
free education programme, which began in the
2015/2016 academic year – precisely in
September, 2015.

Speaking at the commissioning of the Derma
Community Day SHS, President Mahama said from
August he hopes “we will be able to inaugurate
the initiative to expand the programme to cover
about 150,000 boarding school students from
deprived backgrounds in the 2016/2017 academic
year”.

“So the free SHS programme is being
progressively expanded to cover boarding school
students,” he emphasized.

Minister of Education Professor Jane Naana Opoku
Agyemang promised that the school will be fully
resourced just like all schools in the country as
part of government policy.

Derma SHS is expected to enroll about 1,500
students from a previous 243.

It is the first community day SHS to be
inaugurated in the Brong Ahafo Region.

President Mahama promised 200 of such schools by
the end of his first term during the 2012
electioneering campaign. So far, 123 are at
various stages of completion with six including
Nchumuruman Community Day SHS commissioned.

Source - tv3network.com|

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