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Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Endorses Free SHS

by John Kekeli
March 9, 2020
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Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Endorses Free SHS

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Keith Christopher Rowley with his wife waving Ghana's national flag

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The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Keith Christopher Rowley has underscored the significance of free Senior High School (SHS) to the lives of individuals in the country.

This was after he hailed the impact of access to free secondary education on his life when he responded to a toast on Friday, March 6, 2020, at the Manhyia Palace.

Dr Rowley made the observation when the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, held a dinner in his honour as part of Ghana’s 63rd independence anniversary celebration.

Prime Minister Rowley revealed that he came from a family of six boys and the last of the boys.

“Five boys never went to High School. My sister and I went to High school because, Dr. Eric Williams (1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago), a name that you are familiar with, did what your President (Akufo-Addo) has just done, in 1962,” he recounted.

“He (Dr. Williams) brought Free Secondary Education to us, and that singular opportunity produced from this family, a Prime Minister, the first person in the family to go to High School, and my sister, the second person (to go to High School), she became an administrator in public service,” the Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister stated.

He has therefore congratulated Ghana “for joining us in Trinidad and Tobago in contributing to this vision of what we can be, once the opportunities are there”.

Free SHS

Data from the Ghana Statistical Service indicated that, 60 years after independence, only 15 percent of all Ghanaians aged 15 or older had reached secondary education or higher.

The statistics further indicated that 19.5 percent of Ghanaians had never attended school.

These statistics proved to be barrier to achieving sustainable and inclusive development.  

  • Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and his wife, Lady Julia at the Independence celebration

With implementation of the Free SHS policy by the Akufo-Addo administration, access to a minimum of senior high school education for all school going children has been improved in all parts of the country.

Enrolment at the secondary level increased significantly by 43 percent between 2016 and 2018.  

At the end of the 2018/19 academic year, total beneficiaries for the first two cohorts was 794,899 students, with 1.2 million children currently benefitting from the policy.

This is the highest ever number of students concurrently enrolled in the public secondary education system in Ghana. 

To accommodate the increased enrolment, and ensure that no child is left behind, Government temporarily introduced the double-track system.

In anticipation of increased enrolment, and the need to phase out the double-track system, Government commenced the construction of 962 structures in secondary schools across the country, comprising classroom blocks, dormitories and sanitary facilities.

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