[ 2017-05-18 ]

Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education

Napo, Hamid contradictions on SHS policy worrying – IMANI
The President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana
Franklin Cudjoe, has charged the government to
immediately clarify the seeming incoherence
regarding the implementation of its free SHS
policy.

Barely three months to the implementation of the
policy, the Education Minister Mathew Opoku
Prempeh disclosed to Morning Starr host, Francis
Abban, that only students who passed their BECE
exams will have the opportunity to enjoy the
policy.

However, the Information minister Mustapha Hamid,
told the Morning Starr a day after, that pupils
will benefit from the policy without writing the
BECE beginning the 2018-2019 academic year.

The seeming confusion over the government’s
flagship program worries the IMANI President who
has appealed to the government to release further
particulars and guiding blueprint on how the
policy will be implemented.

He said the current situation suggests that the
government is ill-prepared in the implementation
of the education policy which is expected to
commence in September this year.

“We are in a dire need of policy coordinating
units of important programmes like the Free SHS.
The Education Minister says one must pass BECE
before enjoying free SHS, the Information Minister
comes in to say something else. There is a little
of confusion and I think we all need clarity. A
little coherence is needed in this whole free SHS
policy and its implementation.”

Source - Starrfmonline.com

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