{"id":267508,"date":"2022-12-04T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=267508"},"modified":"2022-12-04T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:34:09","slug":"free-senior-high-school-policy-is-working-president-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/education\/free-senior-high-school-policy-is-working-president-akufo-addo\/2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Senior High School policy is working – President Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Akufo-Addo says the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy introduced by his Administration in September 2017, is currently guaranteeing that all Ghanaian children receive a minimum of Senior High School education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nana_Akufo-Addo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Akufo-Addo<\/a>, six years on, following the implementation of the Free Senior High School programme, which has guaranteed a minimum of Senior High School education for 1.6 million Ghanaian children, he is very proud of the policy and of its results thus far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the 70th Anniversary celebration of Opoku Ware School in Kumasi, the President stressed that \u201cthe experiences of developed nations have shown that the most efficient way to create a society of opportunities and thereby guarantee the future of a nation is by investing in education and skills training of the youth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-267477 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-1024x683.webp?resize=800%2C534&ssl=1\" alt=\"President Akufo-Addo graces 70th Anniversary celebration of Opoku Ware SHS\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?resize=696%2C464&ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?resize=1068%2C712&ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?resize=1920%2C1280&ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?resize=630%2C420&ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?w=2048&ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318411421_694380372045271_5785234799497036098_n-jpg.webp?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opoku Ware School was founded 70 years ago in 1952. As such, a rich programme of activities involving both present and past students, as well as the general public was put in place to celebrate the milestone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The anniversary was launched in November 2021 and the ensuing programme officially commenced in January this year, climaxing with a grand durbar, which was graced by Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu as the Guest of Honour and President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year-long programme of activities was on the theme, \u201cSeven Decades Of Leadership Through Self-Discipline\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo said six years on, following the implementation of the Free Senior High School programme, he is proud of what has been achieved.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Fnakufoaddo%2Fposts%2Fpfbid038EXwSt4kiGdnsioGcWM1Nfwx84RR2qKAexyft4aFTaGLUhE3CrsM858uZDqgQJRFl&show_text=true&width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/news\/education\/\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON EDUCATION<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo says the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy introduced by his Administration in September 2017, is currently guaranteeing that all Ghanaian children receive a minimum of Senior High School education. According to\u00a0President Akufo-Addo, six years on, following the implementation of the Free Senior High School programme, which has guaranteed a minimum of Senior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":267479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[13499,13498,13500,219],"class_list":["post-267508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-70th-anniversary-celebration","tag-free-senior-high-school","tag-opoku-ware-school","tag-president-akufo-addo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/318341364_694380858711889_1692981385735908686_n-1-jpg.webp?fit=2048%2C1279&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}