General News of Monday, 4 February 2019Source: dailyguideafrica.comOtumfuo hails Free SHSAsantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu IIThe Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has reiterated his support for the free Senior High School (SHS) programme introduced by government to improve access to education in the country. He, however, charged government to quicken its pace to properly equip the various public universities with the needed infrastructure to enable them to accommodate the increasing number of beneficiaries of the free SHS policy. “The free SHS, in all aspects, is a laudable policy, and we as a nation should applaud it,” the Asantehene, who is the Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), stated. He added: “By April/May 2020, the first batch of students under the free SHS policy will come out and this will double the number of students seeking enrollment into our tertiary institutions. “Resources must be found to complete all infrastructural projects at KNUST and in other universities, including my pet project – Teaching and Research Hospital on campus,” Otumfuo remarked.

Source: GhanaWeb February 04, 2019 10:18 UTC