{"id":21705,"date":"2022-05-14T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T07:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=21705"},"modified":"2022-05-14T07:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T07:31:16","slug":"its-time-to-review-free-shs-policy-palmer-buckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/14\/its-time-to-review-free-shs-policy-palmer-buckle\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to review free SHS policy \u2013 Palmer-Buckle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most Reverend Charles Palmer-Buckle has added his voice to calls for the government to take immediate steps to review the free senior high school policy through stakeholder engagement.<\/p>\n

According to the Archbishop for Cape Coast, the free SHS policy has come to offer relief to parents, but it is important for the government to reconsider reviewing it in order to remove all bottlenecks.<\/p>\n

The policy which commenced in 2017, has received many reactions from some major stakeholders including members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who have issues with its implementation.<\/p>\n

Currently, the policy remains the government\u2019s major expenditure drainer, leading to teething issues such as lack of food supply to schools and irregular timetables.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch of a book titled, \u201cAccra ACA, Bleoo, The History of the Accra Academy from James Town to Bubuashie\u201d, Rev. Palmer-Buckle explained that the free SHS policy can be streamlined to enhance better education.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support 100% the free SHS policy. [But] It is now time to have a stakeholder engagement to review the free SHS,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

According to Archbishop Palmer-Buckle, parents have forgotten that they should be paying for their children\u2019s school fees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have divulged that to government and are blaming government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Addressing the gathering as the keynote speaker for the book launch at the GNAT Hall in Accra, the Deputy Education Minister and Member of Parliament for the Assin South Constituency, Rev. Ntim Fordjour, noted that, the implementation of the free SHS policy requires collaboration from all stakeholders to overcome present challenges.<\/p>\n

He added that global issues such as the Russia-Ukraine war have dealt a blow to many economies, and Ghana was no exception.<\/p>\n

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BOOK LAUNCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

The voluminous 726-page book titled \u201cAccra ACA, Bleoo, The History of the Accra Academy from James Town to Bubuashie\u201d was written by Simon Ontoyin, a graduate of the University of Ghana and an alumnus of Accra Academy.<\/p>\n

According to Ontoyin, he was inspired to write the book after his curiosity on the internet revealed very little information about the school.<\/p>\n

He noted that, despite many challenges along the way, publishing a book that chronicles pre-colonial education to present day, was a fulfilling achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most Reverend Charles Palmer-Buckle has added his voice to calls for the government to take immediate steps to review the free senior high school policy through stakeholder engagement. According to the Archbishop for Cape Coast, the free SHS policy has come to offer relief to parents, but it is important for the government to reconsider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[4553,6483,6486,782,6484,7632,6519,287,6693,913,9198,423,5103,11954,12774,6496,136,3424,192,5162,2264,11062,6485,6487,281,2291,1198,5275,3457,6736,8810,213,9277,5180,5521,214,963,5251,594],"class_list":["post-21705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-accra-aca","tag-accra-academy","tag-assin-south","tag-bleoo","tag-book-launch","tag-cape-coast","tag-children","tag-congress","tag-democratic","tag-economies","tag-education","tag-education-minister","tag-engagement","tag-fees","tag-food","tag-free-shs","tag-free-shs-policy","tag-ghana","tag-gnat","tag-government","tag-internet","tag-james-town-to-bubuashie","tag-most-reverend-charles-palmer-buckle","tag-ndc","tag-palmer","tag-parliament","tag-review-free-shs-policy","tag-russia","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-shs","tag-speaker","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-university","tag-university-of-ghana","tag-war","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}