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Africa Education Watch Executive Director Kofi Asare has refuted claims that the opposition Democratic National Congress introduced the current Free Senior High School policy.
According to him, what the NDC introduced was the progressively free upper secondary school policy targeting day students, as opposed to the current free upper secondary school policy that applies to all upper secondary school students. .
“One is called progressively free; That day aimed at the students, he made the day students pay no fees. So he subsidized the exam fees, the library fees, all those fees were paid by the state to the schools on behalf of these day students.
“The second that is an improvement over the previous one, which is obviously the reason why the government is a continuum is the policy of free secondary education. And that, in addition to making education free for these same-day students, included one meal a day, free exercise books, and free uniforms. “
His comment comes in response to NDC standard-bearer John Dramani Mahama, who during a campaign rally in Tuobong in the Tempane district of the Upper East region said that the Akufo-Addo government inherited the program from him before take over as it had already been released.
The NDC in a press conference on November 26 also reiterated this claim by demanding that the NPP give them credit for introducing the Free SHS policy.
However, speaking on Joy FM’s news night, Kofi Asare said the claims are unfounded as the two policies are not the same, referring to the NPP’s free SHS policy as more comprehensive than the NDC’s progressively free SHS policy.
“So the second is a more complete package if you compare it with the progressively free one. On the internal side, there were some subsidies for some of the public service companies; it was mainly intended to be a subsidy for boarding schools and then a kind of free education for day schools.
“But the free upper secondary school is a complete and comprehensive package, mostly free and also providing learning materials for students,” he said.
