The Free Senior High School (SHS) policy’s present structure has drawn criticism from Professor Ransford Gyampo, a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, who claims that it falls short of maintaining high levels of education.
Professor Gyampo claims that by concentrating the program on pupils who are academically gifted but come from low-income families, the government’s financial burden will be lessened while maintaining standards in education.
At the Relief and Aid International Educational Scholarship inauguration in Accra, he voiced these opinions.
Government is trying to provide free education to everybody, free SHS to everybody. But it knows it doesn’t have the resources to do it. But because we have promised that we will do it, we will do it at all costs, whether we can do it or we can’t do it, we will still do it. That does not promote quality education.”
A founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, also voiced his opinion on the subject, pointing to recent claims of corruption in the Scholarship Secretariat as evidence of Ghana’s deteriorating integrity.
“We have seen quite a lot in this country. Normally, scholarships are meant for the needy. I went to university with a scholarship. I went to secondary school with a scholarship. I schooled with a scholarship. But now scholarships meant for the needy are given to those who don’t need them. It tells you that integrity is at its lowest level in Ghana at the moment.”
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