Review Free SHS Policy To Address Challenges – Presby Church Urges Government

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 it possible for many needy children to have access to SHS education, it had become a problem because the government alone could not shoulder it.

It also highlighted on democracy, security threats, corruption, youth unemployment, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, agriculture and the local industrial sector as areas that needed serious attention.