Don’t demand two-term-fees — Ministry of Education warns SHS heads
The Ministry of Education has warned heads of Senior High Schools (SHSs) against compelling final year students to pay fees for two terms in advance.
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It said any school head found doing that would have him/herself to blame.
A statement issued by the ministry in Accra last Tuesday said a task force had been set up to visit schools to monitor the situation.
It noted that it had received information indicating that some heads of schools continued to deliberately charge unapproved fees.
It said the ministry was currently in possession of copies of a number of second term bills from some SHSs and technical institutions which were above the approved fees.
The statement said several phone calls and text messages to the complaints unit of the ministry collaborated that information of unapproved charges of schools and in some cases, billing students more than once for the same item.
“All these are unacceptable and a complete disruption of government’s effort at making education accessible to all Ghanaian citizens and also a calculated attempt to derail the objective of the school fees standardisation exercise undertaken by the ministry in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS).
“The Ministry of Education, in conjunction with the Ghana Education Service (GES), wishes to state that this attitude is a complete disregard for authority and an attempt by these heads of schools to frustrate the government’s effort to increase equitable access to secondary education,” it said.
The statement, therefore, advised heads of institutions to comply with the guidelines on the collection of approved fees to avoid sanctions.