{"id":1196259,"date":"2022-09-01T10:21:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/we-should-have-a-broader-conversation-on-free-shs-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T10:21:27","slug":"we-should-have-a-broader-conversation-on-free-shs-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/we-should-have-a-broader-conversation-on-free-shs-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"We should have a broader conversation on Free SHS &#8211; Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"We should have a broader conversation on Free SHS - Akufo-Addo\" title=\"We should have a broader conversation on Free SHS - Akufo-Addo\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>President Akufo-Addo says he is open to a broader conversation on access to education, especially the Free Senior High School (FSHS) policy.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation, according to him, must look at funding, availability of money, access and other ingredients that must work for the good of the Ghanaian.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Akufo-Addo-NUGS-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"We should have a broader conversation on Free SHS - Akufo-Addo\" class=\"wp-image-10032162860\"   title=\"We should have a broader conversation on Free SHS - Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things people have been calling for is the review of Free SHS, I think we should have a broader conversation about the incidence of education on our national development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, although there are powerful people who are against the Free SHS, he shares a different view on the programme which is that it is for the public good.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the benefits of the Free SHS programme are \u2018obvious\u2019 in the country.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1335167371&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the leadership of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), the President said the Education Ministry is seriously looking at the issues to inform a policy direction going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, there have been several calls for the government to have the policy reviewed. According to some of the advocates, the policy is producing quantity and not quality graduates.<\/p>\n<p>But President Akufo-Addo speaking at the 10th-anniversary grand durbar of the University of Health and Allied Sciences in the Volta Region stressed that the Free Senior High School policy would not be cancelled despite the current economic crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Akufo-Addo-NUGS-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"We should have a broader conversation on Free SHS - Akufo-Addo\" class=\"wp-image-10032162861\"   title=\"We should have a broader conversation on Free SHS - Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>He said that the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine invasion on the world economy would not deter the government from providing free quality education at the basic and secondary school levels.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1335173755&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Dennis Appiah Larbi says the policy is good as, \u201cit creates a huge appeal and enthusiasm amongst people who want to go to tertiary institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe as a student front are proposing that if it is possible, develop a sustainable means of financing the no guarantor system such that it should be able to help a least 150,000 people in a year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dennis Appiah Larbi also appealed to the government to urgently address challenges with the school feeding programme, non-payment of nurses\u2019 allowance and the loan guarantor system introduced by the government.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo says he is open to a broader conversation on access to education, especially the Free Senior High School (FSHS) policy. The conversation, according to him, must look at funding, availability of money, access and other ingredients that must work for the good of the Ghanaian. \u201cOne of the things people have been calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[648,5195,13840,2756,5480],"class_list":["post-1196259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-akufoaddo","tag-broader","tag-conversation","tag-free","tag-shs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}