Minister for Finance Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta stated that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has no intention of rolling back on a major policy like the Free SHS.
According to him, the government sees education as the best enabler for sustainable economic growth and transformation and will do more to improve it to serve more and better Ghanaian children.
There have been calls on the Akufo-Addo administration to review and possibly put on hold, some of its social intervention programmes such as free SHS; and planting for food and jobs among.
However, the President Akufo-Addo, according to the Finance Minister, will not touch the free SHS policy that is giving secondary education to hundreds of thousands of poor Ghanaians.
In 2017, the Akufo-Addo Administration, a few months into its first term in office, took a bold policy decision to implement the free Senior High School (SHS) education.
From an initial national admission of 393,995 students, enrollment reached a record 470,000 in the 2017/18 academic year.
By 2020, a total of 1.6 million extra students had benefited from the free SHS policy
