{"id":406431,"date":"2017-07-28T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/28\/npp-only-continuing-mahamas-progressively-free-shs-omane-boamah\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:00:35","slug":"npp-only-continuing-mahamas-progressively-free-shs-omane-boamah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/28\/npp-only-continuing-mahamas-progressively-free-shs-omane-boamah\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP only continuing Mahama\u2019s Progressively Free SHS &#8211; Omane Boamah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 28 July 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-07-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/66974540.295.jpg\" alt=\"Omane Boamah\" title=\"Omane Boamah\" width=\"295\" height=\"195\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=150106940064497\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=150106940064497\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1501254035_134_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah believes the free Senior High School (SHS) to be rolled out this September is a continuation of former President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s progressively free SHS<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh on Thursday reinforced the fact that the policy will come into full force when the new academic calendar for SHSs begins  in September 2017<\/p>\n<p>He outlined certain modalities and criteria that will be adopted to enrol beneficiaries of the programme including; the fact that non-performing students will bear their own cost of tuition if they fail to make the required grades after three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said you can carry your free SHS for three years because that is the duration of your study. So if you go to the first year, we will pay. You repeat your first year in year two we will pay. When you get to the second year in year three we will pay. But for four final year, we won\u2019t pay, so you pay your own fees\u201d, the Minister explained.<\/p>\n<p>The free SHS policy according to the NPP government will also cover agricultural, vocational and technical institutions at the Secondary School level.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr Omane Boamah in response to the press conference on his facebook page said  \u201cClass stand! 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Former Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah believes the free Senior High School (SHS) to be rolled out this September is a continuation of former President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s progressively free SHS The Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":406432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPP only continuing Mahama\u2019s Progressively Free SHS - Omane Boamah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/28\/npp-only-continuing-mahamas-progressively-free-shs-omane-boamah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NPP only continuing Mahama\u2019s Progressively Free SHS - Omane Boamah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Friday, 28 July 2017 Source: mynewsgh.com 2017-07-28 Former Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah &#013; 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