{"id":299045,"date":"2017-03-05T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T11:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=299045"},"modified":"2017-03-05T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T11:24:51","slug":"policy-document-needed-for-free-shs-franklin-cudjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/policy-document-needed-for-free-shs-franklin-cudjoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy document needed for Free SHS – Franklin Cudjoe"},"content":{"rendered":"

IMANI Africa\u2019s President, Franklin Cudjoe, has questioned the absence of a policy document for the Akufo-Addo government\u2019s free Senior High School (SHS) as delivered in the 2017 budget statement.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cudjoe, speaking on The Big Issue <\/strong>on Citi FM,<\/strong>\u00a0said the seeming lack of a policy document has contributed to uncertainties about the timelines, source of funding and scope of the policy.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”DiFdCnAIS5emIzpPJgfRK2HXabeUl71d”]He opined that, \u201cthe challenge of the conceptualization of policy and its implementation has always been a problem in this part of our world for both major political parties. I kept asking myself, where is the green paper on free SHS because it has been eight years since 2008 [when the policy was first trumpeted].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the challenges we are dealing with right now point to the fact that, because there hasn\u2019t been any clearly written policy that will guide the Free SHS policy, like most other policies, there is a reason we seem to be going back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funding of Free SHS<\/strong><\/p>\n

There has been\u00a0uncertainty about how the New Patriotic Party’s major\u00a0policy would be funded,\u00a0with a controversy emanating from indications government would draw on the Heritage fund<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, among other sources.<\/p>\n

But the free SHS programme, scheduled to take off from\u00a0September 2017, will be financed from the Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA), the Minister of Finance, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta said during the 2017 budget statement.<\/p>\n

It will cost government GHc 400 million to implement the free SHS programme for the 2017\/2018 academic year.<\/p>\n

Also on the Big Issue<\/strong>, a Senior Lecturer of Public Sector Accountancy and Finance at the Accra Technical University, Dr. Ibrahim Zubairu, described the policy as a repackaged programme<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0akin to the progressively free Senior High School education that was introduced by the Mahama administration.<\/p>\n

This is a claim that the National Democratic Congress Minority has also made leading to it to tag the government\u2019s promises as a \u201cmonumental deception”<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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