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The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has been asked to release funds to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to enable it expand infrastructure in Senior High Schools (SHS). Infrastructure remains the greatest challenge that the government s Free SHS policy has faced since its introduction in 2017 and this has been worsened by the failure of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration to pay contractors despite receiving Parliamentary approval for a loan to do so, according to the Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament, Mr Peter Nortsu-Kotoe.
Mr Nortsu-Kotoe, who is the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Akatsi North in a press statement issued Wednesday also warned of a looming crisis under the Free SHS Programme in Ghana.
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The proposed Sanitation and Pollution Levy cannot be said to have come at the opportune time when donor inflow to fund the sanitation sector which constitutes over 80% has stopped coming due to the middle-income tag put on Ghana.
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The President of the Garden City University College (GCUC) at Kenyase near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, Prof Edward Kwame Asante, has reiterated the call for the amendment of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) law, Act 581, 2000) to allow private universities to also benefit from the fund.
He said the private universities were also contributing to the manpower development of the country and as such, should be assisted to train the needed human resources for the development of Ghana.
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For instance, he said GCUC, has been training personnel for the health sector over the years and these people serve in the public sector and therefore believed that if assisted, the private universities would churn out better trained manpower who would also contribute their quota to the nation.