{"id":450494,"date":"2017-12-28T01:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/28\/free-shs-policy-haphazardly-implemented-amissah-authur\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T01:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:01:42","slug":"free-shs-policy-haphazardly-implemented-amissah-authur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/28\/free-shs-policy-haphazardly-implemented-amissah-authur\/","title":{"rendered":"Free SHS policy haphazardly implemented &#8211; Amissah-Authur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 28 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/65656918.295.jpg\" alt=\"Fveep\" title=\"Fveep\" width=\"295\" height=\"193\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Vice President,  Amissah-Arthur<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514422902_433_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Authur has expressed disappointment over government\u2019s implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Akufo-Addo government failed to thoroughly think through the implications of the policy, especially the cost, before executing, hence the challenges.<\/p>\n<p>He urged government to do better in 2018 by consulting more with experts and stakeholders to ensure that the programme is fine-tuned to yield the desired results.  <\/p>\n<p>They could have done much better and that is what we are hoping for. In the coming year they would be able to resolve a lot of the problems [ associated with the policy],\u201d he told Joy News\u2019 Mawuli Yevu-Agbi.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament has predicted a collapse of the country\u2019s SHS education in five years if the challenges plaguing the sector under the Free SHS policy are not fixed.<\/p>\n<p>They say the challenges bedeviling SHS education under Akufo-Addo&#8217;s flagship Free SHS policy are overwhelming and will cripple the schools very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Cautioning government, the former Vice President observed that government in 2017 has been modeling through implementing policies such as the Free SHS.<\/p>\n<p>Kwasi Amissah Authur made these remarks on the sidelines of a donation exercise and a Christmas visit he made to the Volta Regional Hospital together with his wife Matilda Amissah-Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>They donated food items, toiletries, detergents, and assorted drinks to patients and staff at the hospital on Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 61 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Thursday, 28 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-28 Former Vice President, Amissah-Arthur Former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Authur has expressed disappointment over government\u2019s implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme. According to him, the Akufo-Addo government failed to thoroughly think through the implications of the policy, especially the cost, before executing, hence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free SHS policy haphazardly implemented - Amissah-Authur - 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\/12\/28\/free-shs-policy-haphazardly-implemented-amissah-authur\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Free SHS policy haphazardly implemented - Amissah-Authur - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Thursday, 28 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-28 Former Vice President, Amissah-Arthur Former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Authur has expressed disappointment over government\u2019s implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme. 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