The president of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has given indications of implementation of Free Tertiary Education similar to the Free Senior High School policy in Ghana.
President Akufo-Addo said the possibility of making tertiary education free has been considered and discussions are ongoing to see its implementation.
Speaking at the Global Education Summit held in London on Thursday, July 29, President Akufo-Addo expressed confidence that making tertiary education free would grant more people access to education just like the Free SHS program.
“For now, what has been put in place is a system where students at the tertiary level are provided loans while in school to help them cater for their needs, but we’re considering free Tertiary education too,” he said.
“The Free SHS policy has driven up Ghana’s budget for the education sector and that there are plans to invest more in the initiative,” President Akufo-Addo noted.
He stated that Free SHS has been a success and has given education opportunities to Ghanaians who would have been left out due to lack of finance.
“It’s one of the highest on the continent, and we intend to ramp it up even more,” the President stated.
Adding that “the policy has reversed decades of exclusion, which denied, on the average, one hundred thousand young men and women, annually, entry to senior high school education because of the poverty of their parents.”
