Government implements free SHS next year
A Deputy Minister of Education in charge of pre-tertiary education, Mr Alex Kyeremeh, has announced that the government will implement the fee-free senior high school (SHS) next year.
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Addressing the 50th anniversary of the Kumasi High School in Kumasi last weekend, he explained that the implementation of the policy, would pave the way for many people, especially needy but brilliant students, to have access to secondary education.
“This is among the various strategies and interventions the government has put in place towards the development of education in the country”, he said.
The anniversary was on the theme “KUHIS at 50: Half a century of quality boy-child education for human resource development, challenges and prospects”.
Mr Kyeremeh, who was the guest speaker, cautioned headmasters of senior high schools not to admit students through protocol at the expense of students posted to their schools through the computerised placement system.
Use of mobile phones in schools
He also urged headmasters to be vigilant and enforce the regulations that prohibit the use of mobile phones in their schools by students since they spent most of their learning time surfing the social media at the expense of their education.
President John Dramani Mahama, in an address read on his behalf by the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Sarpong, said the development of education was among the government’s priorities, hence the voting of over 40 per cent of the nation’s budget to the education sector.
He hinted that Ghana’s education was among the best in Africa and the world as a whole and said everything would be done to sustain the development of the nation’s manpower development.
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The Headmaster of the school, Mr Michael Oppong Yeboah, mentioned the lack of an assembly hall as the major challenge confronting the school and called on the government and other philanthropists and institutions to come to their aid.
School’s academic achievement
The school has, over the years, recorded 100 per cent pass in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).
The headmaster said in order to help maintain the school’s standard, it had put in place prudent measures such as the organisation of extra classes during the weekend and other intensive monitoring activities.
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, in an address read on his behalf by the Akyempemhene, Oheneba Aduse-Poku, commended staff, management and students of the school for the success chalked up over the years and urged them to keep it up.
He called for the reintroduction of religious and moral education in the school curricula to instil moral values in students for the betterment of the entire nation.