MoE announces date for 2024 edition of Free Senior High School (Free SHS) Walk

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has scheduled Wednesday, December 4, 2024, as the date for the 2024 edition of the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) walk.

Presented by the Free SHS Graduates Association in collaboration with the Free Senior High School Secretariat, the Free SHS walk will begin at 6 AM on December 4, 2024, from Sewua junction, Bosomtwe to Aputuogya, Bosomtwe.

The Free Senior High School (Free SHS) Graduates Association (Nana Mma) was launched on November 11, 2020, by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Greater Kumasi.

A leading member of the NPP, Henry Nana Boakye who announced the launch of the Association in a social media post sighted by Educationweb.com.gh said “It will kick start at 7:00 am at the Cultural Centre, Rattery Park”

The Free SHS Graduates Association comes after the first batch of the Free SHS beneficiaries sat and completed the 2020 edition of the WASSCE for School despite the outbreak of the locally transmitted COVID-19 in Ghana.

President Nana Akufo-Addo in 2020 speaking in one of his televised national addresses monitored by GhanaEducation.org pronounced the 2020 WASSCE candidates ‘Nana Mma’ meaning Akufo-Addo children in English.

The Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy introduced in the September 2017 academic year is a government initiative that eliminates fees for public Second-cycle school students.

Eligibility

Any Ghanaian child who is placed in a public senior high school by the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) is eligible.

Benefits

The policy covers all fees, including boarding, meals, textbooks, and other charges. Students also receive core textbooks, supplementary readers’ notebooks, exercise books, and free drawing instruments.

Goals

The policy’s goals are to improve access, equity, and equality in education. It also aims to provide opportunities for young people to help drive Ghana’s development.