Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that the possible negative effects on private schools were not considered before the implementation of the free SHS policy.<\/p>\n“I am saying this because a government which has promised to revamp the private sector, in the course of rolling this programme, they should have considered the private schools; as in posting some of the students to the private school.\u201d<\/p>\n
He suggested further that, “if nothing at all, the government can subsidize the fees or pay and absorb all the fees because they are all Ghanaian children and we are all Ghanaians.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mohammed Nurudeen said the situation was “very bad” because “gone are the days where you will see parents trooping in and bringing in their wards to seek admission.”<\/p>\n
He noted that in the past, his school normally did not have problems with admission \u201cbut as we speak, the numbers that we get this time around we are not getting these numbers because of the free SHS.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mohammed Nurudeen thus described the policy \u201cas one of the ways killing the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n
The government has officially launched the free SHS policy which will see about 400,000 students getting enrollment into public senior high schools across the country.<\/p>\n
The government will among other things pay for tuition, feeding, school uniforms, library and textbook fees for students.<\/p>\n
Concerns from Tamale<\/strong><\/p>\nThese concerns echo that of owners of private high schools in Tamale, which appealed to the government to outsource the Free SHS placement to them to sustain the private schools.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Proprietor of City Senior High School at Target, Musah Sulemana, on behalf of his colleagues\u00a0also noted that, their\u00a0biggest problem\u00a0“is getting fresh students and we are appealing to the\u00a0government to address our concerns… schools have reopened and the private senior schools we are not getting students in terms of admissions.\u201d<\/p>\n
He expressed fears that private schools may have\u00a0to fold up.<\/p>\n
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By: Hafiz Tijani\/Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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