The Ghana Education Service, GES, says the first tranche of subsidy payments to government assisted Senior High Schools will be effected next week between July 14 and 19.
This comes after the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools, CHASS threatened to close down schools due to the delay in subsidy payments for the 2013/2014 academic year.
Government is expected to pay 25 Cedis per student per term. According to the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance is processing the payments for the various schools.
In a statement, the Acting Director General of GES, Charles Aheto Tsegah gave the assurance that by next week, they will get this first tranche of money.
He commended the heads of the various schools for managing the affairs of the schools despite the unavailability of funds.
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