Second cycle institutions in the Upper East Region have resumed academic work, following government’s settlement of their feeding grants arrears for three academic terms.
Second cycle schools reopened on the 4th of May, 2017 but students in the three regions of the north would not resume due to government’s indebtedness to the schools.
Meanwhile a total of GHc106, 697,628 has been disbursed by government for the settlement of feeding grants in the affected institutions for academic work to commence.
[contextly_sidebar id=”5m3HNZPx7YhdDXKQ3o8oL8ciheXpDvq5″]The students have stayed home for two weeks without any academic work for no fault of theirs.
They will have to break again for one week in June to enable candidates of the Junior High Schools write the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Some of the students who reported to school on Monday in a Citi News interview expressed worry at the time they wasted at home while their counterparts in the southern sector were in school studying.
They were however happy that, government has released their feeding grants.
One student said “I’m happy that we have resume school but the feeding grants issue that delayed us in the house wasn’t the best and I will encourage all my colleagues home to come to school to start academic work.”
Another student Atule Clemencia stated that “we stayed in the house for a very longtime and we have lost a lot because our colleagues in the South started learning long ago meanwhile we write the same examination. So if we don’t learn we end up failing and they think we don’t learn in the house but we don’t get the teachers to teach us in school like those in the South.”
“We have just resumed and we don’t even know when we will organize ourselves for effective classes so it will have limitations on our academic work,” Bawumia Gideon stated.
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By: Frederick Awuni/citifmonline.com/Ghana