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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has made important promises in the education sector in its campaign, such as removing tuition fees for first-year university students and expanding the Free SHS policy to private schools.
Festus Mwingsong Akyuuro, a Public Relations consultant and member of the NDC Youth Manifesto team, disclosed these commitments at the party’s campaign kick-off at UPSA.
Akyuuro emphasized the need for increased funding in the nation’s secondary education system.
“Promises to improve secondary education have been touted as the greatest achievement, but there’s no funding. You cannot claim this as your crowning accomplishment without proper financing, and the construction of the E-blocks must be completed,” he stated.
John Mahama, leading the NDC campaign, has pledged to revamp Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) by combining it with contemporary amenities like fabrication labs featuring 3D printers and advanced technology.
Akyuuro stated that Mahama plans to expand the Free SHS program to include private senior high schools as part of his educational initiatives.
“We have students who cannot attend public basic schools, yet we have empty private senior high schools. If we can educate them at the same cost as in public schools, let’s move them there and pay the same amount,” he proposed.
In what is known as the “No Fees Stress” program, the NDC vows that all first-year university students will not have to pay any tuition fees.
“No academic fees for first-year students. We’ve heard countless stories of students who finished school with 7As, and we had to start crowdfunding for them. All of that will be a thing of the past under the next NDC administration,” Akyuuro added.
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