John Dramani Mahama, flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has made public, his intentions to abolish the Free senior high school secretariat for the policy to be administered by the Ghana Education Service (GES), should he get the opportunity to become President again.
He says the GES, as policy implementer, has over the years, implemented all government policies on education, and that of the free SHS should not be an exclusion.
During his consultative meeting with leadership of three pre-tertiary teacher unions Friday, April 19, 2024, John Mahama said he will integrate the secretariat into the education service directorate so that it wouldn’t be independent as the status quo.
He reiterated his intention of mainstreaming TVET and STEM education into all senior high schools across the country rather than allowing them to stand alone.
The science labs of the Community Day SHSs, as well as the science resource centres, according to the former President, are going to be used to propel the integration of STEM and TVET into the senior high schools.
“We are going to mainstream TVET and STEM into all secondary schools. We don’t believe that TVET and STEM should be stand alone in special secondary schools. In this regard we’ll revamp the science resource centres in order that clusters of schools can use those resource centres.
“The imperative of the Free SHS Secretariat being supervised by the Education Directorate is our considered view. The education service which is an implementation agency has the capacity to implement the free shs policy. The NDC will therefore integrate the free shs secretariat into the education service directorate and not have them exist as separate entities.” he assured during his meeting with National Association of Graduate Teachers, Coalition of Concerned Teachers-Ghana and the Ghana National Association of Teachers.
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