Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Professor Stephen Adei has said that the free senior high school programme has some challenges that must be arrested. He indicated that there was a need to make the policy work better in terms of funding, and class sizes.
Speaking on the Hot Issues on TV3 on Sunday, December 22, he said: "I think that if the words are to be taken, what the president-elect is saying is on the right side that he is committed to the free secondary school, I think that we must take his word for it." He further indicated that "The free SHS has some challenges and they have to be addressed.
We must look at it and see how we will make it work better in terms of funding, and class sizes.
For example, no country can afford to have free SHS, almost 50 per cent of its children going to boarding schools, it is just too expensive, so there is a lot of room for tweaking it.