General News of Wednesday, 27 November 2019Source: adomonline.comEducation Ministry justifies procurement of 400,000 SHS past questionsDr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, Minister of EducationThe Education Ministry has justified Ghana Education Service’s (GES) procurement of 400,000 sets of past questions and answer booklets from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), for distribution to the first batch of beneficiaries of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy. Speaking in an interview on Accra-based Citi FM, Head of Public Affairs at the Ministry of Education, Vincent Ekow Assafuah said they did the needful with the procurement. It is the commitment and anticipation of government to support our first set of free SHS education that enrolled in 2017 come out with flying colours,” he said. Meanwhile, Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee, Peter Nortsu Kotoe, has questioned the rationale behind the move and the budgetary provision made for the procurement. Because as far as I know, in 2019 there was nothing like that in the budget for the Ghana Education Service or Ministry of Education to procure such learning materials for students in SHS,” he argued.

Source: GhanaWeb November 27, 2019 17:15 UTC