SHS free: 1.3 million students expected at school this year – Napo

General News of Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Source: abcnewsgh.com

2019-07-24

The number of students in high schools will reach about 1.2 million residents after this year's admissions, Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh said.

Speaking at the meeting "Meet The Press" in Accra on Wednesday, he said that this figure would represent an increase of about 400,000 people out of a population of about 800,000 people.

"As we speak, the total number of students in school is about 800,000, or two free years of SHS. At the end of our admission this year, the population of our schools will be approximately 1.2 million.

"This means that the previous three years and the two previous years, we have displaced the population of our high schools by 43%. It's more children who were otherwise wasted, go to school, "he said.

The government introduced the Free Security Policy in the 2017/2018 academic year, allowing students from all over the country to have free access to upper secondary education, with free meals for children. boarding and day students, accommodation and free textbooks.

This policy, which was in its first year of operation, offered more than 90,000 additional teens an opportunity to attend high school and improve their chances of finding a job in the future.

In 2018, the government put in place the dual-track system. The move, which is expected to last seven years, according to the Ministry of Education, is a palliative measure used to cope with the upsurge in enrollment under the free SHS program.

According to the Minister of Education, "it is best that children be in the clbadroom and that is why we introduced the dual-track system which, as we have not built Sufficient and that building construction takes time, we can not say that your child should wait at home. "

He stated that the government would issue the free SHS to ensure that no child was left behind and that every first and second year would be expected to duplicate.