The future of the Free Senior High School policy is bleak because of the manner it is being handled by the current government, the Executive Secretary of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST-Ghana) has predicted.
Dr Peter Partey Anti adduced that the policy is not sustainable.
“The future is bleak. The future is bleak because [the Free SHS Policy] is not sustainable.”
Dr Partey Anti expressed these sentiments at National Level Dialogue held by TV3 on Wednesday, August 23.
The Dialogue was themed: ‘Free SHS In Perspective: Problems, Progress and Prospects’.
During his presentation, Dr Partey Anti called for an alternative stream of income to make the Policy, which he estimates to be a good one, sustainable.
He said since its rollout in 2017, government has depended on annual budget funding amount (ABFA) from the oil proceeds to finance the policy due to the future benefits it claims would be derived from beneficiary students.
He agreed that such investment to make favourable returns in the future is good.
But he stressed that government’s investment shifts to other sectors anytime it gets to the crunch as to allocation of inadequate funds.
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“Anytime government is in trouble, the policy will be in a big mess,” he suggested.
But also at the Dialogue was the former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei.
Prof Adei said the Policy should not be fingered as the cause of the country’s economic crisis.
To him, the causes of the downturn of Ghana’s economy are not near the investment being made into the Free SHS.
“The Free SHS is not the cause of the economic crisis,” he stressed.
Source:3news.com