As government implements the Free Senior High School policy, some have raised concern about the neglect of basic education, which is also supposed to be free.

[contextly_sidebar id=”1e4V3DOGW5PfOeiJG1g6gTzQbSHJ96If”]Citi News’ checks at some public Junior High Schools have shown that parents were being charged for admission, tuition, among other items before their wards are admitted.

The development, which is contrary to provisions for the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) program generated worry and public debate.

Speaking to Citi News, Mrs. Ayisi acknowledged that these problems existed and explained that onus lay schools to make the issues know to their direct supervisors of education.

“…In your districts, you have a District Director. If it’s a metro, you have the metro supervisor in charge of education. We have circuit supervisors. We have the offices there. If I am a headteacher and I have a problem, I need to channel my grievances to all these people.”

These supervisors are then expected to forward the grievances to the Director General of the Ghana Education Service, the Minister added.

However, she said schools were not making good use of these reporting chains and the government was not going to tolerate these shortcomings any longer.

“…But I have realised that some of these things that we hear about all the time, it doesn’t go through that [process]. Some may also go through that, get to a point but they don’t get to the next stage… When you have a problem, don’t just sit down and assume that a minister somewhere will know that you have a problem.”

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By: Farida Shaibu/Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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She said this after inspecting some abandoned school projects in the Cape Coast North Constituency on Monday.

Mrs Ayisi said it is unclear why some of the school blocks which have been completed some years back, were left unused and were deteriorating.

The inspection, was as as a result of an observation she made during the 2016 campaign period which gave her the opportunity to identify such projects in order to find means to complete them.

Mrs Ayisi has inspected four of the abandoned schools including a six unit classroom block at Efutu Kokwado, which was completed three years ago, but is still not in use, Bessakrom, Ebubonko and Nkanfua.

In spite of a constitutional provision that successive governments shall continue to execute projects and programmes commenced by the previous administration, it was not being adhered to.

“It looks like we have not been doing the right thing over the years so it is difficult to know which organisation is responsible for which project. In most cases the assemblies do not even know that a project is going on in their jurisdiction and this is wrong,” she said.

Mrs Ayisi said the Ministry was determined to embark on accelerated programmes to complete all abandoned school projects by the next academic year.

The Ministry would liaise with the assemblies to ensure the continuity of all projects to facilitate the development process of the country and implored all stakeholders to provide the needed support.

Going forward, she said, all relevant stakeholders must be briefed on projects in their communities to ensure continuity even after a change of Government so that the resources invested would not go waste.

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Source: GNA

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