Free SHS Will Not Compromise On Quality Education – Nana Addo
President Akufo-Addo says his government will ensure that the Free
Senior High School program does not compromise quality education in the
country.
According to him, the government is collaborating with various
agencies and partners to ensure that all students in Secondary School
benefit from quality education to enable them to contribute meaningfully
to the country’s development.
He said, “A key component of the policy must be the provision of
quality education, the government is collaborating with various partners
to implement major programs and interventions such as the Secondary
education Improvement Program, the expansion of physical infrastructure
and free supply of core subject text books to students,” Akufo-Addo said
while delivered in keynote address the launch of the Free SHS program
in Accra.
Akufo-Addo in his address noted that the government was also working
to improve upon the standard of teaching in the country through various
programs in collaboration with the UK government and DFID.
He said teachers were central to the achieving positive results from
the program hence government’s interest in making they are adequately
resourced to carryout their mandate.
The Free SHS program is a long-held campaign promise of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP) before it came into government in January 2017.
Then flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo used the program as his flagship
campaign message in the 2012 elections but failed to secure the mandate
of Ghanaians in the December polls.
In December 2016 however, ridding on the back of the Free SHS
campaign message, Nana Akufo-Addo was voted into office as President of
Ghana.
Among his early public statements after his inauguration, President
Akufo-Addo indicated that his government was working hard to implement
the policy program from the 2017/2018 Academic year starting in
September.
-Citifmonline
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