{"id":2558,"date":"2014-02-27T06:23:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:23:19","slug":"free-shs-policy-will-reduce-quality-education-angel-kabonu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2558","title":{"rendered":"Free SHS policy will reduce quality education \u2013 Angel Kabonu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2560\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Angel-Kabonu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2560 \" alt=\"Angel Kabonu\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Angel-Kabonu-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Angel-Kabonu-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Angel-Kabonu.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Kabonu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Vice President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Angel <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"406bd62c-af8c-46d1-b6d4-af62d9ef1c8d\">Kabonu<\/span> says the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy will rather reduce the quality of education in the Senior High Schools.<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, was because the private schools had the capacity to provide quality education due to the amount of fees they charge as compared to the public schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is it that although education is virtually free at the public basic schools, most parents prefer to send their wards to private based schools in the country? What it tells you is that whereas everybody in this world want <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"f47679a7-1ad2-4a23-9dfc-a65b4bca8e11\">free<\/span> things, everybody also wants quality and results- oriented institutions,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <b>Eyewitness News<\/b>, he stated that the debate on the Free SHS policy by the two major political parties had to do with populism.<\/p>\n<p>In that regard, he stated that \u201cwe need to be careful about some of these populist ideas touted by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in a quick rebuttal, the Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa debunked the notion that the Free SHS policy will reduce the quality of education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you access the basic education of our country, you will come to the conclusion that there are multiple of factors accounting for the current state of basic education in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>I am not too sure it is the as a result of the Free SHS policy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, he stated that the factors accounting for the decline in the quality of basic education constituted teacher absenteeism among others.<\/p>\n<p>President John Dramani Mahama \u00a0revealed that government&#8217;s plans of implementing the Free SHS policy\u00a0\u00a0during the 2014 State of the Nation address on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Angel Kabonu says the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy will rather reduce the quality of education in the Senior High Schools. This, he said, was because the private schools had the capacity to provide quality education due to the amount of fees they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,16],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}