Free SHS will be extended to TVET institutions – Akufo-Addo
Touting the performance of students who recently passed out of Senior High Schools affectionately called “the Akufo-Addo graduates”, the President has revealed the extension of the Free Senior High School program to cover first years’ in the vocational and technical schools.
He revealed this during the 70th-anniversary celebration of the Tamale Senior High School in the Northern Region.
The President also added that the decision coincides with the completion of nine model schools in various parts of the country.
“The completion of the nine model SHSs across the country is imminent and in 2022 government will expand the Free SHS program to cover all first-year students in public TVET institutions,” he said.
He gave the assurance that government will also continue all ongoing projects started in the technical universities as well as technical and vocational institutions with the aim of improving upon the quality of their service.
“The government will continue the program of implementing the various reforms and projects in the TVET centres including the rehabilitation and upgrading of technical universities, upgrading and modernization of the 34 NVTI centres, retooling of TVET institutes and the establishment of 10 state-of-the-art TVET institutes,” he said.
Out of the schools being constructed, seven are new schools under construction at the secondary level, including one Creative Arts School, one Technical School and five Science-Based Schools”.
However, two existing schools are being upgraded into model schools.
Facilities to aid teaching and learning in the various schools include Administration block, Creative Arts/Science block, dormitory blocks, dining hall with kitchen, staff accommodation, library block, recreational facilities, laboratories, roads and external works, and service and maintenance shed.
To boost the creative arts Senior High School is being built in Kwadaso, Kumasi, the Senior High/Technical School is being built in Dabaa, in the Ashanti Region, while the science schools are being built at Akrodie in the Ahafo Region, Weija in the Greater Accra Region, Awaso in the Western Region, Kpasenkpe in the North East Region and Abomosu in the Eastern Region.
He further revealed that the Koase SHS/Technical School in the Bono East Region and the Diaso Community Senior High School are being upgraded to model schools.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
