We will maintain and improve free SHS coverage – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has assured Ghanaians that his administration will maintain and improve the Free Senior High School (SHS) coverage.
“We will sustain and enhance the free SHS policy,” the President said in his first public engagement since his swearing-in on Tuesday, January 7, on the 92nd Annual Jalsa (Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission at Pomadze within the Central Region, President Mahama.
The 2024 Annual Jalsa is on the theme “Justice and Peace; The Essential Ingredient for National Development”.
The three-day occasion is chaired by the Ameer and Missionary in Charge of the Ahmadiyaa Muslim Mission, Alhaj Maulana Noor Mohammed Bin Salih.
The President once more assured Ghanaians that the Government would deal with overcrowding in colleges, full deserted initiatives and enhance Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) schooling.
He famous that schooling was the cornerstone of nationwide progress, and to this finish, as promised, whereas strengthening primary schooling, the Government would maintain and improve the free SHS coverage in order that Ghanaians acquire the advantages that it was meant to bestow.
“We will address challenges such as overcrowding to ensure quality education at all levels,” he mentioned.
The President mentioned their plans additionally embrace free tuition for first-year college students getting into public tertiary establishments.
He additionally talked about the completion of deserted e-blocks and investments to supply equitable studying alternatives nationwide and throughout the entire schooling worth chain.
President Mahama mentioned these initiatives would empower the youth with the talents wanted to excel in a quickly altering world.
“We shall emphasize technical vocation education and training so that we can produce the skilled manpower that is needed for business and industry”.
He mentioned he was going to arrange a planning Committee to start out engaged on the National Education Review Conference that he had promised.
The President mentioned this convention would evaluate the nation’s instructional system proper from the kindergarten by the fundamental to secondary to tertiary to technical vocational schooling.
He mentioned it could determine what the hindrances to high quality schooling have been at every stage of the nation’s instructional system.
“I believe that this conference will come out with new ideas in order to provide us the outcomes that we need as a nation,” President Mahama mentioned.
The Ameer and Missionary in Charge of the Ahmadiyaa Muslim Mission, Alhaj Maulana Noor Mohammed Bin Salih, mentioned the goodwill that Ghanaians had proven President Mahama by emphatically endorsing him as President have to be seen to have spoken loudly that Ghanaians have been no extra within the temper of giving the abuse of their feelings and trampling upon their rights to God.
“At this time of our history as a people, Ghanaians (are) demanding justice if we must have peace,” he mentioned.
“They are demanding pragmatism, a human pursuit of practicality over and above aesthetic qualities, a concentration of facts rather than emotions or ideals or for that matter empty loud noise and deceitful promises only.”
Source: GNA
