The real costs of free SHS are hidden - Prof. Akosua Ampofo

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  • The akyem sakawa mafia came to LOOT! 11 months ago

    Prof, worry not cuz JM is here to review and reset it firmly. As for accountability, nothing will change it!

  • FRANKIE 11 months ago

    I listened to her and I just loved the frankness with which she spoke. The FREE SHS simply needs to be reviewed. A national stakeholders conference as proposed by Mahama is very welcomed. For me, day schools should be entirel ...
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  • DotCom 11 months ago

    A review is a good starting point. I have always thought the programme was rushed through without careful consideration of its cost and benefit. What is the overall goal of the programme? Is it to get more people in school? W ...
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  • Kojovie 11 months ago

    Stakeholders engagement is a KSF for any programm. The universities are key Stakeholders and it looks like they were not adequate given the opportunity to make inputs. If Mahama should succeed he should also not rush to make ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: OKRAKU AND OTO MUST GO, NOW!!!!!! 11 months ago

    Conference for what? Nobody has time for that. Other nations have perfected this free education for centuries learn from them no need foe over deliberative dialogue wasting time. Primary, jhs n shs must be free. Free day but ...
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  • Freewill 11 months ago

    7 years now, where were all these profs now talking? Old demon would have sent forces after u. Nana is truly an African leader, critic him and u will never talk again. Lol.

  • KOFI 11 months ago

    So all these characters were in the country for the 7 years Free SHS was in operation heh?
    Now they have started speaking.
    Ghana my motherland.

  • Yaw Manu 11 months ago

    Because the gov't stifled them. Such a dictatorial gov't. People are now free to speak because of the kind of leader we have just voted for.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    If Nana Addo’s government is dictatorial, how will you describe that of Kwame Nkrumah, and especially Jeremiah John Rawlings the accomplished killer, torturer and murderer? Jeremiah was the most evil of them all, with his B ...
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  • Kwabena Ohemeng, London 11 months ago

    Nkrumah can be described as a dictator by his enemies but unlike Akuffo-Addo he didn't run a family government and never used his family to amass wealth at the expense of the state.

  • Kojo 11 months ago

    So is the benefits of FSHS. It is not just about education but goes beyound education to social inclusion, social mobility and building citizenship.

  • Nana Akua Adobea 11 months ago

    Stupid. Did anyone expect non-tax payers to pay for free education. Some of the professors are dumb. All these are fellows of Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Only NDC can 11 months ago

    @ Nana Akua Adobea. I like your name. I am not sure of your age and education level. What the Honourable Educationist is saying is about the cost and analysis which has been choked by this Government for fear of its public li ...
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  • Nii Akwei 11 months ago

    Thank you. Ghana needs people who can THINK. I am serious.

  • ST Ghfuo: OKRAKU AND OTO MUST GO, NOW!!!!!! 11 months ago

    Akua Adobea are you cramping? Stop your jealous fooling what is this a person with your name n you write such rubbish are you stupid? Professors are dumb? Are you high or something? Do u know what it takes to be a professor? ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    My philosophy is that if free education was good and workable for our Northern cousins who paid little or no taxes from the time of Nkrumah, then it should be good and made workable for all Ghanaian students up to the High Sc ...
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  • EFO KOKU 11 months ago

    PROFESSOR DIEGO
    The whole FSHS is run by magic. Now that Mahama has graduated as full time magician who is ready employ the youth, running of the FSHS wouldn’t be a problem. Magic!

  • ST Ghfuo: OKRAKU AND OTO MUST GO, NOW!!!!!! 11 months ago

    So where is the newswire clip or video? You see I don't like to comment based on what these halfwit hami noko journalists have reported the video will best inform me. Free shs unfortunately is the only legacy from this titani ...
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  • AYIGBE NYEBRO 11 months ago

    Ayigbe nantw33 after 32 years of NDC rule your kwasiapanin tribesmen are the poorest in ghana.

  • Afriyie 11 months ago

    Implementing change is never easy. We need to build on what has already been started to discover better solutions that benefit the entire country, both rich and poor. Let's stop the pointless debates and focus on finding solu ...
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  • Mahma 11 months ago

    These are hypocrite. UG as at now does not have a clue as to dealing with student accommodation, what solutions have they proffered? Illiterate lecturers

  • Pelicles. 11 months ago

    Will these so-called critics, force John Mahama to instantly cancel the free SHS and let the money that should be invested in the program, be given to the critics.

    Students of the free SHS are doing something amazing like ...
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  • Nmotia 11 months ago

    Pelicles has lost his mind alas! Ha ha ha. The resounding victory of JM is driving these Nkwasiasem Party People crazy!

  • ( ^ ) 11 months ago

    Free SHS has produced some of the brilliant students of all time. This prof just needs job from Mahama that is why she is bossing him. Shame on you professor bansa.

  • Another FOOLISH ACADEMY FOOL AKOSUA 11 months ago

    Another stupid person in Ghana. Did you expect someone else to pay for the policy? Taxpayers have to pay the free shs

  • GHANA 11 months ago

    This so-called opinion and several others are all part of thr steps leading to cancellation of the free SHS policy. John Mahama and NDC are bent on stopping th3 poor people of this country to also climb to levels that their k ...
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  • Kofi Boahen in Paris. 11 months ago

    That’s NDCFOOLS for you Ghanaians. We told you “SO”

  • Kwaku Binfo 11 months ago

    FREE SHS IS A SENSELESS POLICY AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED AND NOT REVIEWED

  • Asonaba asiedu 11 months ago

    Eeii! This akuffo addo/bawumia 419 government. There are a lot of skeletons in the cupboard which are going to come out. Ghana is indeed God's own country! Ghana would've been in serious trouble if the plan to impose bawumia ...
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  • Yaw 11 months ago

    Does she have a daughter or son in any secondary school? Has PTAs been silenced, in which way? Lies have put out there claiming that’s the truth and coming from academic. He’s at the university and she’s found voice to ...
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  • Mosesmm 11 months ago

    What is this nonsense talk. Everybody knows FSH is subsidised by Ghanaians. Does she want Chinese to sbs8dise our education.

  • Moshosho Rice (best before 7/12/24) 11 months ago

    When a Scammer or a Kejetia pick pocket holds a Bible with red zip can you say he is a thief? Who born dog

  • Sul 11 months ago

    WE HAVE STUPID HEAD MASTERS THAT ONLY KNOWS HOW TO ORGANIZE CONFERENCES AND LACK THE CREDIBILITY AND CAPACITY TO ORGANIZE THEMSELVES FOR THE TRUE STATE OF THE FREE SHS

  • Oklibone Accrar 11 months ago

    Is this one too an academic prof,if you decide to spend more without limited on your ward after the government has provided the necessary items for students,do you expect the government to add your extra cost to it own when b ...
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  • Yaw 11 months ago

    GO AND SEARCH FOR IT you are all hypocrite s cancel the SHS and let us have our peace of mind Ghanaians says they don't want it so is it a problem

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 11 months ago

    Now, a whole number of professionals and other very important people can talk about the challenges of the free SHS. Thank God the Nebuchadnezzar is on his way out in 2 days. What a wicked and murderous president Ghana has had ...
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  • AYIGBE NYEBRO 11 months ago

    Ask your ashawoo mama who your kwasiapanin papa is.

  • Donatus 11 months ago

    Ghana is a poor country, and cannot just afford it, it is a mere wish. Look at the numerous economic problems we have had because of free SHS.

  • SA 11 months ago

    Madam it wasn’t that we couldn’t talk ooo, it was the president we all fear. Look at how many they were suspending headmaster n teachers?
    We are now free n we are going help this government to improve the fshs if n only ...
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  • Kwaku Yeboah 11 months ago

    Another useless PhD holder from Legon. What is your suggestion for reforms. Just talk and talk. It is an open secret that a Dutch passport is more valuable than a PhD certificate from Legon. And a Ghanaian toilet cleaner in H ...
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  • Nmotia 11 months ago

    The resounding victory of JM is driving you these Nkwasiasem Party People crazy!

  • THE CRUSADER 11 months ago

    WHATS YOUR PROBLEM?THAT THE NEEDY BRILLIANTS KIDS ALSO GET THE SAME RIGHT AS EVES AND NORTHNERS INTO OUR BIG SCHS?GOD BLESS NPP!

  • Gaslg 11 months ago

    Not all free things are actually free. The negative effects will come in other forms.

  • Patriot 11 months ago

    Free SHS - MEND IT DON'T END IT!

  • Ghanaba 11 months ago

    Does this prof have a child she is very dishonest for some headmaster are criminals and everything is left in their hands they would have sabotaged it
    Meanwhile I will love if this prof can tell us how she financed her secon ...
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  • 3dem 11 months ago

    They have suddenly found th fruit voices and making demands....

  • Pepenyi Mfantse 11 months ago

    If you don’t want the FSHS cancel it and stop disturbing our ears.

  • Kwami 11 months ago

    I just paid some 700 cedis for science and other books and 400 cedis food subsidy, 500 cedis for other maintenance of school properties. Open secrets you don't tell Akuffo Addo about. Free shs indeed. Why not subsidise very p ...
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  • Richard Obeng Asante 11 months ago

    Ghanaians are too hypocritical, suddenly everyone has gained his or her voice just to appease the incoming government. How can a nation develop with this kind of attitude.

  • Nana 11 months ago

    I personally don't think this is an issue. The FSHS as we all know was a political party's policy which it committed to fully. It is therefore not obligatory for the incoming administration to continue it if it thinks it is ...
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  • AYIGBE NYEBRO 11 months ago

    U ashawoo mama should have a horse.
    Ony33 gbemii kpootoobiii either u are nyebro or 1 of the people who shares the same room and water with nantw33

  • JB 11 months ago

    The pundits are beginning to talk and pontificate now that JM is back. Wonders will never end

  • Luke 11 months ago

    Review whole system including North system.Why should rich people from the North enjoy Free education It must be for really poor people The problem in Ghana a lot of people in the informal system who make a lot of people.Maha ...
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  • Muji 11 months ago

    Professor speculating.what we don’t know we don’t assume.i just don’t get it.

  • Jojo 11 months ago

    Let us have ears

  • Tsotsoo 11 months ago

    Prof I support you intoto. How can a student from Bawku is posted to Tema as day student. The parents come to hire a place in Tema for the student to attend the day school. What is free SHS. What is FCUBE let's look at the ...
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  • Woedem 11 months ago

    It's a worrying voices of this type could not be heard some years back but today. Was she also afraid of the autocratic president and the American made education minister just like the headteachers?

  • Yao 11 months ago

    These are nice pretexts to cancel the programme in order to create a class where only the children of the rich could go to the first class schools.

  • Obroniba 11 months ago

    The mother serpent of corruption made it possible for everyone to be quiet and invoked fear into anyone who criticized the free SHS policy. Thank God Almighty his government has been booted out and the floodgate has been open ...
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  • Samuel Asante 11 months ago

    That is the "wicked" gov't we have, so disgracefully, pushing FSHS under our throat. Never again this Akuffo Addo-led gov't.

  • OZYMANDIAS 11 months ago

    Who among the current lecturers at the University of Ghana is highly respected? Is Mr Violent Kisser one of them?

  • Emma 11 months ago

    Bring the real cost out. Professor without head to think.

  • Top notch 11 months ago

    Better late than never, but why is Prof Akosua sharing her concerns now. As an academic professional, she can share her views anytime without fear

  • Top notch 11 months ago

    Better late than never, but why now. Just wondering why Prof Akosua couldn't share these concerns because I think (unless i sm wrong) she has the academic/professional right to do so

  • CHS 11 months ago

    Very easy to find faults and not giving a solution. And in view of your comments are suggesting that the FRRE SHS be cancelled??

  • Mahma 11 months ago

    Hypocrite and no sense

  • Mensa 11 months ago

    Miserable sycophant. Gyimee professor.
    She wants an appointment

  • Fiifi 11 months ago

    Wo boa...... Which alumni has not made known their investments..... Check the cape schools.... Augusco Adisco rtc

  • Kwame Peter 11 months ago

    Hypocrisy in full flight, Nkrumah and JJ ruled Ghana where propel were thrown into jail without trial and some made to disappear for dissent,was anybody sent to jail or made to disappear under Nana Addo government? Somebody s ...
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  • Tyrol Odoom 11 months ago

    Prof Akosua when did you find your voice about free SHS. Sycophantic comment.

  • Kwabena Ohemeng, London 11 months ago

    Free SHS has destroyed Ghana's economy. It needs a root and branch review to make it sustainable and manageable.It is a populist policy meant to curry the favour of the electorate and get their votes.Its negative economic ra ...
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  • Prince 11 months ago

    The Professor failed to give her estimated cost. Somebody has run this policy for 8 years. over 5 million kids have benefited from it including my son, so if the one who promised to add private schools to it and the good old ...
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