“God will bless him if it is true that he uses tax payers’ money to educate over 120,000 Ghanaians who otherwise would not have been able to afford an education and instead simply left after graduating from high school. If he has used tax payers’ money—you and I, as he is president—to educate 120,000 people annually so that, by the end of the eight years, he has educated 1.2 million people—to teach them reading and numeracy skills at SHS.”
If this educational endeavor is real, according to Paul Adom Otchere, then God should grant blessings.
Around 2.5 million students in Ghana have benefited from the government’s Free Senior High School (SHS) and Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) programs since their implementation in September 2017, according to Deputy Minister of Education John Ntim Fordjour.
In a recent development, the government has resisted requests for an evaluation of its current policies, particularly the free SHS Policy, in spite of mounting criticism from professionals and civil society organizations that favor a more resource-efficient strategy.