Breaking: Government to review Free SHS policy–Check why 👇👇👇

According to Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwah,Director-General  of the Ghana Education Service (GES), the Free Senior High School policy is now being reviewed. He stated "...we can conduct the analysis and then declare that Raymond will need to pay this much for an excellent education.

 These are the elements that make up that cost." According to Opoku Amankwah, "then we will all throw it out there and say this thing, we can make do with it, and it would not impair quality, this item, I think we can get parents to pay," he told Joy FM in Accra. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) requirements that will be outlined after the government decides to seek a bailout have been refuted earlier by a deputy minister of finance, who also refuted accusations that the Free Senior High School policy will be altered.

 The government's key initiatives, including Agenda 111 and the free SHS, won't be eliminated, according to Abena Osei-Asare. "We want to reassure the public that we have worked at the IMF before and that, despite our previous presence, we nonetheless secured development... and it won't be any different this time. "From 2017 to 2019, we continued and increased the IMF-funded program for school nutrition. When we arrived in 2017 there were approximately 1.3 million kids [receiving school meals], but by 2019 we had increased to over two million kids under the IMF program. We did introduce the Free Senior High School Initiative in September 2017 as part of an IMF program, she stated.

 She informed us that there are plans for the government to make the current economic situation more stable. She is hopeful that social interventions like free SHS, school feeding programs, and others will be preserved to continue serving Ghanaians from low-income households given the government's plans to uphold the policies.

 "We believe our plans to help stabilize the economy are in place... We'll get assistance from other bilateral neighbors as well to rebuild the economy. Abena Osei-Asare continued, "So, as I am saying, the government will do everything possible to protect social intervention programmes that we believe will protect livelihoods and also cause the people who are economically low to flourish."