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Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has assured all Ghanaians that the Free Senior High School (FSHS) initiative introduced by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government has come to stay.
He explained that the introduction of the FSHS initiative is to ensure equity, improve accessibility, and also ease the burden of parents so that their children could have access to education whether they have money or not.
Again, he said, “the government would continue to make available the right resources to ensure that all schools had what was required to support effective teaching and learning in all schools at all times irrespective of location”.
Leading construction Firm Nickseth Construction Limited has come to the aid of female Students of the Bosome Senior High Technical School who had to take their bath in an unroofed makeshift structure with no tiled floors.
The company has constructed an ultramodern bathhouse and laundry complex at a cost of three hundred and fifty thousand cedis (GHc350, 000) by way of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Until this intervention, the rundown structure served 420 students who queued for five-minute turns every morning to take their bath.
Apart from the discomfort, students had to grapple with infections contracted while bathing on the untiled floors.
Board Chair of the company Dr. Godfred Owusu Boateng indicated that his firm learnt about the plight of the students when it was awarded a GETfund contract to construct two dormitories for the school.
Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education, has assured all Ghanaians that the Free Senior High School (FSHS) introduced by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government, has come to stay.
He explained that the FSHS was to ensure equity, improve accessibility and also ease the burden on parents so that children could have access to education whether they have money or not. “The government would continue to make available the right resources to ensure that all schools had what was required to support effective teaching and learning at all times irrespective of location,” he said.
Dr Adutwum gave the assurance when he paid a surprise visit to some selected schools in the Central region on Friday to monitor the adherence to the COVID-19 Protocols, implementation of the Free SHS Policy and teaching, learning and assessment.
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Vice Chancellors of public, private and technical universities in the country have pledged to support the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, to transform and promote the development of the country through education.
The Chairmen of the Vice Chancellors, who made the announcement, said they would do everything to assist him in the planning, promoting and implementation of strategic policies that stood the chance of transforming the development of education leading to socio-economic development of the country.
Purpose
The VCs gave the assurance at separate ceremonies when they paid courtesy calls on the minister in Accra to congratulate him on his elevation to the substantive position of the ministry and also to discuss issues that would help improve the development of education in the country.