Northern Ghana has centers for the mass production of remedial students not SHS – Lecturer
A Senior Lecturer at the University for Development studies, Dr. Michael Ayamga has said the Northern part of Ghana do not have Senior High Schools but rather centers for the mass production of remedial students.
The Lecturer who believes that the Free SHS policy being drummed home by the governing New Patriotic Party should not be implemented on a wholesale basis in a post on Facebook indicated that ” We do not have secondary schools in many of the poor regions especially in my part of Ghana. What we have are centres for the mass production of remedial students.”
He noted that while schools in the Southern part of the country graduate a huge percentage of their students to the Universities, schools in Northern Ghana graduate the same percentage of students into remedial schools.
“Yes, while schools found mostly in the south graduate 90% of their students into university and other tertiary education institutions those found in the northern parts graduate 90% of their wards to remedial schools”.
He mentioned that education in Northern Ghana has never been free like the people have been made to believe because most parents have had to enroll their wards in remedial schools and pay huge sums of monies before their wards can get the necessary passes to qualify them for the University.
“What is claimed to have been provided free we pay multiples of it in remedial schools. Dare I say that remedial school must necessarily be free for secondary education to be truly free.”
By: Offei-Akoto Ayeh/a1radioonline.com/Ghana