Education think thank Africa Education Watch is pushing for the review of the feeding component of the Free Senior High School programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare says the current system should be critically looked at to allow parents who can afford to pay, to bear the feeding cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His call comes on the back of reports of food shortages in some public senior high schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This situation compelled some heads of schools to consider shutting down their schools if the government fails to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking on some interventions to stop the annual occurrence, Kofi Asare said it was high time government reviewed the feeding component of the free senior school policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt should be possible to means-test the students and ask children of middle-to-higher income-earning Ghanaians to pay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Asare also said the issue of food shortages in SHS should not be blamed on the Education Ministry, but rather on the Ministry of Finance over its failure to release enough funds to pay food suppliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe solution is having a system that ensures that the Minister of Finance will disburse an average of GH\u00a2100 every month to oil the food distribution and most importantly, clear the about GH\u00a2320 million backlogs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n