The call by the participants at the Graphic Business/Stanbic Breakfast Meeting on rich people to pay for their children’s school fees for Senior High School education dominates the headlines of Ghanaian newspapers on Tuesday, 13 November 2018.
The state-owned Daily Graphic reported that speakers and participants at the Graphic/Stanbic Breakfast meeting in Accra on Monday unanimously agreed that rich parents should be made to pay for the education of their children under the Free Senior High School programme to help save the policy from collapsing or compromising the quality of education.
According to the newspaper, the forum zoomed in on sustainable funding for free quality education and the speakers and the participants were of the view that public funding alone could not sustain the programme, hence the need for financially endowed parents to be allowed to fund the education of their children under the policy, which would enter its full phase next year.
The newspaper splashed the pictures of the speakers and participants, raising their hands in support of the call for rich parents to pay the school fees under the policy.
The Ghanaian Times, on the other hand, splashed the picture of the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon, Prof. Aryeetey, one of the main speakers at the event on its front page and reported that former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon.
He has called on rich parents and those in the upper class of the society to be allowed to support the financing of Senior High School education.
The debate about the sustainability of the free Senior High School policy introduced by the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in 2017 has been raging with the government parrying away any concerns raised on the sustainability of the policy.
– APA
