{"id":417496,"date":"2017-09-12T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/12\/govt-has-already-paid-20-fees-of-first-year-students-napo\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:11:34","slug":"govt-has-already-paid-20-fees-of-first-year-students-napo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/12\/govt-has-already-paid-20-fees-of-first-year-students-napo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t has already paid 20% fees of first year students \u2013 Napo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NAPO-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has announced that as part of plans to successfully roll out the implementation of the Free SHS policy without any hiccup, the government has made an upfront payment of 20% of the school fees of the first year students.<\/p>\n<p>This measure, he noted, was meant to silence critics of the implementation of the Free SHS policy, especially, those who doesn\u2019t see anything good with the policy.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTo ensure that those who will not see anything good don\u2019t come and criticize us, the President has ensured that as part of the Free SHS being fully funded, for the first time in the history of this country, even for those who are paying fees, they go to school before they pay their fees. They don\u2019t pay their fees from home. The President has ensured that even before one child gets into school, 20% of the school fees are already there waiting for them,\u201d he noted at the launch of the Free SHS policy at the West Africa Senior High School in Adenta on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, September 8, 2017, the government through the Ministry of Finance announced the release for disbursement half of the GH\u20b5486 million earmarked for the free SHS policy.<\/p>\n<p>The money was expected to have hit the accounts of the various public SHS before they re-open on Monday for classes to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Over 400,000 first year students are expected to benefit from the free SHS policy this academic.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting further, said not only has the President ensured part payment of the school fees of the beneficiary students, he had also ensured capitation grant that are in chronic arrears are paid up to date \u201ceven for the first term of this academic year is ready\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFeeding grant for the handicapped schools are going before the schools re-open. Feeding grants for students of northern extraction \u2013 that problem that we have had that has still given us Presidents is going this year before the schools re-open. Teacher-Trainee allowance has not only been restored \u2013 it is going before schools re-open,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has announced that as part of plans to successfully roll out the implementation of the Free SHS policy without any hiccup, the government has made an upfront payment of 20% of the school fees of the first year students. This measure, he noted, was meant to silence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":417497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov\u2019t has already paid 20% fees of first year students \u2013 Napo - 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\/09\/12\/govt-has-already-paid-20-fees-of-first-year-students-napo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gov\u2019t has already paid 20% fees of first year students \u2013 Napo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has announced that as part of plans to successfully roll out the implementation of the Free SHS policy without any hiccup, the government has made an upfront payment of 20% of the school fees of the first year students. 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