Review free SHS policy to address challenges – Presby Church urges govt
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) has asked the government to review the free senior high school (SHS) education policy to allow parents capable of financing some aspects of the programme to do so.
That, the PCG said, was due to the fact that the free SHS programme had become a huge financial outlay which the government was finding it difficult to implement.
The church was of the belief that if capable parents were allowed to pay for some aspects of SHS education, it would bring relief to the government.
This was contained in a communique issued by the church at the end of its 22nd General Assembly in Abetifi in the Kwahu East District in the Eastern Region last Saturday.
Laudable
According to the communique, although the free SHS policy was laudable, since it had made ...