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| Alex Kyeremeh |
The Deputy Minister of
Education in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education, Alex Kyeremeh, has announced
that, the ministry will soon publish the approved fees for all Public second
cycle schools for the 2014/2015 academic year.
The publication which will
be carried on all major media platforms, according to the deputy minister is to
safeguard parents and guardians from paying unapproved fees, which some school
Heads in the country have been charging first year students.
‘We will be tough on school
heads who charge unapproved fees… Education should not be the preserve of a
privileged few but affordable to all’ he stated and appealed to all
stakeholders including chiefs report any recalcitrant school head for the
necessary sanction to be applied.
Mr. Kyeremeh who is also
the MP for Techiman North was speaking at Kpeve in the Volta region, during the
commissioning of an ultra-modern office complex for the South Dayi District
Education Directorate, constructed at the cost of 800 thousand Ghana cedis with
funding from Department for International Development (DFID).
He also noted that,
measures are in place to ensure prudent utilization of the recent 156 million
dollars World Bank loan facility acquired to build 23 new Senior High Schools,
upgrade 125 existing schools and provide scholarship to over 10-thousand poor
students from deprived communities in the country.
As parts of the measures,
he said an independent fund administrator will be appointed to liaise with
communities in selecting eligible beneficiaries.
On the issue of using part
of the money to supply sanitary pads for female students, the Deputy Minister
explained that government will not buy the pads and distribute, but instead the
money will be given to such students to buy what will keep them in school and
their eligibility for the next trench will be based on a proof of purchase.
