Education Ministry approved SHS fees out
The Ministry of Education has approved new fees to be charged by heads of second-cycle schools for the 2014/2015 academic year.
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In the approved fees structure, fresh boarders are required to pay GHC¢668.5, while day students are to pay GH#¢355.5.
Continuing boarding students are to pay GH¢385, while continuing day students will pay GH¢73.
The Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, announced this in Parliament yesterday when she appeared in the House to answer questions pertaining to the charging of unapproved fees by some second-cycle institutions.
For fresh boarders, she gave the breakdown as follows: miscellaneous fees, GH¢359; uniform and clothing, GH¢175; approved teaching and learning support fees, GH¢97.5 and PTA levies, GH¢37.
Fresh day students, according to her, were expected to pay GH¢48 as miscellaneous fees, GH¢175 as uniform and clothing fees, GH¢97.5 as teaching and learning support fees and GH¢35 as PTA levies.
Prof Opoku-Agyemang said continuing boarding students were required to pay GH¢348 as miscellaneous fees and GH¢37 as PTA fees.
The fees for continuing day students are GH¢38 and GH¢35 for miscellaneous and PTA, respectively.
Measures
The minister said the ministry had established a committee to standardise the charging of fees in all schools throughout the country.
The committee, she said, made recommendations on approved fees to be charged by schools every year for approval by the ministry.
Heads of schools and the public, she added, were notified of the approved fees.
"For instance, the approved fees to be charged by heads in the 2014/2015 academic year have been circulated to all the major stakeholders, including the heads, in a letter dated September 2, 2014 and further publicised on the ministry's website for the information of the public," Prof Opoku-Agyemang added.
Complaints Unit
She said the ministry had also established a complaints unit to receive complaints pertaining to issues on education, including the charging of unapproved fees, from stakeholders.
The complaints, she said, were always verified and acted upon.
"Mr Speaker, we have had cause to direct the acting Director-General to query and sanction heads who were found culpable charging unapproved fees last year," she said.
The ministry, she said, had several stakeholder fora across the country to, among other things, help enforce the guidelines on approved fees.
