The Minister-designate of Education, , has announced that the government will undertake a comprehensive review of the Free Senior High School (SHS) program to ensure its sustainability and reliability.
Appearing before the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Monday, January 20, 2025, emphasised the importance of securing adequate and dependable financing for the program. "With emphasis on the future of the Free Senior High School in particular, how to assure it of adequate, reliable, sustainable financing, we will undertake a stakeholder forum which will involve donors and partners, involve academia, parents and students, to review the Free Senior High School program.
I should acknowledge that it remains one of the boldest steps in wanting to transform education. "It was a matter of debate between free, universal education, absorbing all the costs, and progressively free, starting with infrastructure.
But President Mahama intends to undertake a comprehensive review of it to make it sustainable," he noted.
