{"id":443143,"date":"2017-12-02T21:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/02\/free-shs-lack-of-toilets-students-can-use-rubber-bags-education-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-12-02T21:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T21:14:58","slug":"free-shs-lack-of-toilets-students-can-use-rubber-bags-education-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/02\/free-shs-lack-of-toilets-students-can-use-rubber-bags-education-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Free SHS: Lack of toilets, students can use rubber bags \u2013 Education Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  2 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanacrusader.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20888599.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh\" title=\"Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh\" width=\"295\" height=\"185\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512249298_797_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has asked senior high schools students to use polythene bag if they lack toilet facility in their schools.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference in Accra Thursday, November 30, 2017, Dr Prempeh answering a question on lack of toilet facility in some schools under the Free SHS educational policy said;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are few schools still in Ghana here that are secondary schools who had no toilets. That is not the result of Free SHS so when you see students portraying that I do it rubber bag and I walk 45 minutes, at least you have the rubber bag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh also challenged political critics to name secondary schools that are congested because of the Free senior high school (SHS) education policy.<\/p>\n<p>He said there is \u201cno school\u201d that the Free SHS Secretariat placed more students than the heads \u201cadmitted they can contain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken minister said there is a record at the Secretariat detailing the number of first-year students sent to the various schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a head tells Free SHS Secretariat that \u2018we can only admit 533\u2019 and it places 520 students, [but only] 517 enrolled, how then do we say that Free SHS has caused congestion in the school?\u201d he asked.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWatch video below<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: 26 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/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>General News of Saturday, 2 December 2017 Source: ghanacrusader.com 2017-12-02 Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has asked senior high schools students to use polythene bag if they lack toilet facility in their schools. 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