The Minister for Education, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, says the decision by the Akufo-Addo led government to spend the country\u2019s oil revenues on \u201cFree Senior High School education "},"modified":"2019-08-13T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:28:44","slug":"spending-oil-revenues-on-free-shs-a-better-investment-education-ministerdr-matthew-opoku-prempeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/13\/spending-oil-revenues-on-free-shs-a-better-investment-education-ministerdr-matthew-opoku-prempeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending Oil Revenues On Free SHS A Better Investment \u2013 Education MinisterDr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Minister for Education, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, says the decision by the Akufo-Addo led government to spend the country\u2019s oil revenues on \u201cFree Senior High School education is a better investment than anything the country can dream of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking at the Bolgatanga Senior High School on Tuesday, 13th August, 2019, as part of President Akufo-Addo\u2019s 2-day tour of the Upper East Region, he noted that even before the implementation of the Free SHS policy, the President ensured that the capitation grant for basic schools was increased from GH\u00a24.50 that had existed in 2009 to GH\u00a29 in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2018, (President Akufo-Addo) took it further to GH\u00a210, and hopefully we will increase the capitation again. More basic schools are being fed on the hot meal basic school feeding programme than have ever existed in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Minister for Education indicated further that \u201cschool uniforms are being provided for the poor, and even females are sometimes being given something to help with their female particular problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Free SHS policy, according to Minister, has also ensured that, for the first time since 2007, \u201ccore textbooks have been supplied to students\u201d. In addition to that, he stated that supplementary readers have been purchased and brought to schools as library books.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only that, we have recently supplied mathematics revision books to students, and the reason why we supplied the mathematics revision books is that, when you look at the record in WASCCE, math is probably the worst, and thank God probably we have started seeing change,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
The Minister continued, \u201cVery soon, this year, we are supplying Question and Answers, as model Question and Answers and Chief Examiners Report to every student in the country, so that, whether there is a teacher, or there is no teacher, there is no excuse for the student not to revise and to read, and to become familiar to the questions that have been asked since 1993 when we started Senior High School. Thanks to his Excellency.\u201d<\/p>\n
The introduction of \u201cacademic interventions\u201d by the Akufo-Addo government, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has ensured that \u201cteachers were given something for assisting students to become better in school\u201d.<\/p>\n
Additionally, he indicated that \u201cfor the first time in the history of\u00a0 this country, day schools were given one hot meal a day, and every day school enjoys this one hot meal a day and will continue to enjoy, in so far as His Excellency the President, and His Excellency\u2019s Party is in power, the day school feeding will never change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
As a result of these interventions, the Education Minister indicated that there a record number of students currently in Senior High Schools across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said between 2014 and 2016, the total population in all schools in the country, was about 800, 000 students. As we speak the total population in our schools is about 800,000 discounting the first years who have not yet even come in,\u201d the Minister added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh The Minister for Education, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, says the decision by the Akufo-Addo led government to spend the country\u2019s oil revenues on \u201cFree Senior High School education is a better investment than anything the country can dream of.\u201d Speaking at the Bolgatanga Senior High School on Tuesday, 13th August, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":680333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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