Policy Think Tank, IMANI Ghana has opined that the much hyped free Senior High School policy by the New Patriotic Party is likely to face some setbacks.
This according to Head of Economics at IMANI, Patrick Stephenson is because of the current economic conditions in the country.
President Akufo-Addo over the weekend assured that his government will fully implement the free SHS policy from September this year, 2017.
But speaking to Citi News, Mr. Stephenson challenged government to declare the source of funding for the project.
“The way we had talked about the whole free senior higher education and how it’s going to be implemented, the idea itself may not be a problem, but how we should treat it within the structure of the educational system as we speak today so that the targeted persons get to benefit. I think that’s been the problem to the extent that we have not seen sufficient clarity from the current government is making it very difficult to appreciate what the intended objectives are,” he explained.
Free SHS to begin in September
President Akufo-Addo has assured that his government will fully implement the free SHS policy from September 2017.
According to him the implementation of the policy will cover the full fees of students who attend public Senior High Schools in the country.
President Akufo-Addo said the policy will ensure that Ghanaians who qualify for SHS are not burdened with financial difficulties.
“By free SHS, we mean that, in addition to tuition which is already free, there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees; there will be free textbooks, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free,” the president clarified.
Source: citifmonline.com
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And they call these guys policy think what - tanks? 'Gracious me'! This IMANI wasted a whole day before the elections to tell some of us less than 30% of the NPP's manifesto was doable. Now they rather foresee problems in the 'non-doables'? Is there a prefect programme even in a nearly perfect Dubai, Malaysia or the US. How do these guys qualify to be think tanks? They are nothing useful when a gov't is performing. still trying to prove relevance. IMANI was buyable, they still think they are buyable.
hahahahaha...is that what NPP is telling ImaNi today..i shock sef....when they were on JDM every single step, they were independent. No the ties have turned so FC is NDC...time will tell indeed.... its just started Frankline
Do not say anything if you have nothing to say. You look very bad when you do that.
Let Imani tell us what project their outfit has been able to do for Ghana except engaging in falsehood and praising their ex master, JDM? Franklin Cudjoe never saw anything good about the policies of the NPP yet he was always praising the NDC and organising pools(false ones) to win the hearts of the NDC!!
When intelligent minds are thinking about possibilities, you have dumbers as Franklin Kudjo f0oolishly focusing on the impossibilities. Anyway, that's what they told all heroes but they went on and left names in history. Let's get the car on the roaad and any imperfection would be dealt with. Don't sit and talk about negative stuffs Koo Gyimiiiiii.
Masa think.You call yourself think thank so you should..You always talk about source of funding to make your argument better.Don't you think even money from our oil can fund this laudable project ! Don't you think it's time for poor people to benefit from our oil. Asey no time use.less criticism.
This AWAM think tank too who takes them serious
Franklin Cudjoe of Imani, you are E-V-I-L
The only country in the world whereby everything thing is seen as either evil or impossible, come to America and tell them they can't build one the best bridges on the biggest river, why can't we have a positive idea with all these numerous resources. Please imani just think positive and stop this negativity. they can do it, there will be troubles and failures but at the end it will be successful. Dream big my brother and lets think as 21st century people but not 18th.
IMANI Ghana cant think far. Their tank is not deep enough. So they think nothing can be done or that everything is too difficult to do. THINK! THINK!THINK! IMANI THINKS.