Mahama to commission 10 more Community Day SHS

President John Mahama is expected to commission 10 more out of the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools promised by government.

According to him, he had given orders to the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to begin populating the 10 additional schools prior to their inauguration.

The schools are part of the 200 Community Day Schools promised by the government during the 2012 elections under the progressive Free SHS policy.

During the State of the Nation Address to Parliament in February, 2015, President Mahama said 54,800 children in 4 regions have been enrolled into schoolsunder the Compulsory Education program.

This he said was is in fulfillment of a pledge made by government to absolve the cost of secondary education in Ghana.

The Ghana Education Service in 2015 had listed some of the schools that will benefit from the implementation of the progressive free SHS policy.

They include:

Central Region – 27, 795 students in 54 schools

Western Region – 38, 751 in 56 Schools

Ashanti Region – 64, 430 from 102 schools

Northern – 17, 648 students out of 45 schools

Brong Ahafo – 38, 751 from56 schools.

Upper East – 1,395 students out of 28 schools

Upper West – 877 students from 23 schools

Eastern – 34,157 students out of 82 schools

Greater Accra – 52,664 consisting of 46 schools

Volta – 36,859 out of 88 schools

So far, President Mahama has inaugurated some schools at Otuam in the Central Region, Nkwanta South in the Volta Region, Babiamkor, and Kwaobaah-Nyanoa in the Upper West Akim District of the Eastern region.