Education section of the 2022 Mid-Year budget review by Finance Minister
The Minister of Finance has presented the 2022 Mid-Year budget review and touched on key aspects of education in the 26-page document. He disclosed that government since 2017 has i invested GH¢ 5.3 billion to enable 1,261,495 Ghanaian children access to secondary education under the Free SHS programme at the end 2021 towards improving access to education.
During the year, a total of 555,353, representing 97.1 percent, were placed into SHS unde the goverment’s Free SHS policy.
Below is the full statement on education during the 2022 Mid-Year budget review by Finance Minister
Free SHS Programme
Mr. Speaker, we have placed human capital development at the core of our national transformation efforts since 2017.
We have invested GH¢ 5.3 billion to enable 1,261,495 Ghanaian children access to secondary education under the Free SHS programme at the end 2021 to improve access to education.
Out of the 571,892 registered JHS candidates, 555,353, representing 97.1 percent, were placed into SHS this year.
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This is significant We are aware of reported challenges in accessing and transporting food for students in SHS and we are fixing it. In response, we have engaged stakeholders and devised a programme that ensures that schools will not be disrupted and our students are well-fed. Government has also recently completed 17 additional projects including classroom blocks, dormitories, staff bungalows and libraries as part of infrastructural expansion in Senior High Schools. To deal with the record increases in student numbers.
Mr Speaker, we shall not compromise on President Akufo-Addo’s commitment to giving all our children the opportunity to be educated from kindergarten to university, without the ability to pay being a hindrance. Free Secondary and TVET education are not under review. We will continue to fund them and we will continue to improve them Ghana School Feeding Programme.
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Mr. Speaker, thanks to tax payers, since January, 3,620,468 pupils in 10,832 public basic schools have been fed with one hot meal every school going day in the first half of the year under the Ghana School Feeding Programme. The programme provides employment for 32,496 caterers. School feeding programme remains an important initiative that keeps our children in school and provides jobs and incomes for several people, mainly women.
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