The free senior high school (SHS) policy has seriously affected the payment of fees by continuing students, with most of them refusing to pay their fees because, according to them, they too were Ghanaians who must enjoy free SHS.
This was made known by the President of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Mrs Cecilia Kwakye Cofie.
“The challenge is also that a Ghana Education Service (GES) policy forbids the sacking of students from school for non-payment of school fees. So we are in a fix,” she said when she addressed the 68th Speech and Prize-giving Day of the Winneba SHS in Winneba last Saturday.
She also called on the government to, as a matter of urgency, release subsidies which have been in arrears for three terms to senior high schools (SHSs).
She said SHSs risked being closed down prematurely if the absorbed fees by the government did not reach the schools “immediately”.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Heads of our SHSs should consider themselves as managers of the schools they head and come out of their old ways of running the schools.Times have changed and more action is expected of them.They should stop complaining and get to work.Ever since they were asked not to charge fees from the form one students ;its been one complaint after another.Are they sure that they will be complaining if they were charging fees?Now continuing students are supposed to pay fees.As heads of the schools you come complaining that because the first years are not paying the other students who have a different dispensation as far school fees are concerned say they will not also pay.This becomes a news item and the heads are proud of it. I think it time we open up the appointment of heads of schools to rope in people outside the educational sector for them to bring in fresh ideas.In the mean time heads sit up and manage your schools