This follows a directive by the Ghana Education Service (GES), to heads of public Senior High Schools to charge final year students only half of the third term fees for the 2017/2018 academic year.

The General Secretary of CHASS, Reverend Abraham Osei Donkor, said: although bills have been given out to students, heads of schools would comply with the new directive and refund the excess fees to students.

“The directive is unambiguous. I don’t think it will create any problem. They are starting the exams on the 3rd of April. For most schools, especially the boarding house, the students are in residence. The Director-General said in the event students will stay in the school, we have to calculate the number of weeks they will stay and add it to it. That is what all the heads will do. They’ll work it out; where we need to refund, we will refund to the parents.”

The Ghana Education Service [GES] last Thursday said the directive was because the students, who will be sitting for the 2018 WASSCE examinations will spend only seven weeks in school instead of the full 14 weeks.

The Director-General of the GES, Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, said: “It is expected that the Regional Directors should ensure strict compliance with this directive.”

The memo indicated that adjustments would be made if students are prepared to stay through the Easter vacation.

“In the instance where the final year students will be asked to stay in school during the current holidays or will re-open on 16th April 2018, the fees should be adjusted to reflect the number of weeks they will be spending in school,” it said.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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In a statement signed by their Communication Office in the region, the party argued that, the NPP government in the heat of the campaign promised to provide a holistic education for all students in second cycle institutions free of charge.

[contextly_sidebar id=”YzH65th21Dv0DWMxtara3PzOHErO2KpX”]However the current implementation of the Free Senior High School Policy does not cover continuing students as promised.

“The current Nana Addo-led government promised the people of Ghana through their manifesto free education and not what they are currently trying to implement. The NPP manifesto Chapter 9 page 107 says “they will redefine basic education to include SHS covering Vocational, Agricultural, and Technical schools and make it available for free on a universal basis to all Ghanaians. What we are currently witnessing is not what was promised Ghanaians,” it stated.

This they said was deceitful, hence the need for parents to register their displeasure by resisting the payment of their wards’ fees.

“The discrimination by government against those going to SHS(2) and (3), a total of 565,404 students must not be tolerated by Ghanaians who believe government must be held to their promise. We are calling on parents to resist any form of payment for their children going to SHS 2 and 3. When prevented we call on them to pour unto the streets and demand what was promised them”.

The Free Senior High School Policy is the flagship intervention by the new government that sought to have children in the second cycle institutions attend school free of charge.

Under the policy, government would foot all bills including feeding fees, school fees and all other charges. Over 420,000 eligible students would enjoy the project when it kicks starts.

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By: King Norbert Akpablie/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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