{"id":385336,"date":"2017-12-22T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=385336"},"modified":"2017-12-22T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T03:37:00","slug":"scholarship-secretariat-can-handle-free-shs-funds-aheto-tsegah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/scholarship-secretariat-can-handle-free-shs-funds-aheto-tsegah\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship Secretariat can handle Free SHS funds – Aheto Tsegah"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Ghana Education Service Director, Charles Aheto Tsegah, sees nothing wrong with government allocating funds for the implementation of the Free SHS policy to the Scholarship Secretariat.<\/p>\n
He explained that, the basis for which the government has taken this decision is to label the Free SHS money as a scholarship.<\/p>\n
“By labeling it as a scholarship, it moves away from the Ministry of Education budget into the account or the budget of the office of government business where the Scholarship Secretariat is located,\u201d Mr. Tsegah explained on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In his view, “within that context, it is right for the government to say that money is a scholarship money, and it will be handled and managed by the scholarship secretariat.\u201d<\/p>\n The former GES director was speaking in relation to the Minority in Parliament’s concerns that the government’s decision to allow the Scholarship Secretariat to administer funds for the free senior high school policy was illegal.<\/p>\n The Minority based its argument on the\u00a0GES Act which states that, the Service shall be responsible for the implementation of approved national policies and programmes relating to pre-tertiary education.<\/p>\n