Juabin Matey

The effect of free senior high school policy on the lives of parents and wards in ghana

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• Juabin Matey

Journal title : International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Scope

Publisher : Iquz Galaxy Publisher

Online ISSN : 2582-631X

Page Number : 27-36

Journal volume : 1

Journal issue : SI-2

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The free senior high school policy is one of the best social and economic intervention policies that openly affect both parents and their wards in senior high school. This realisation is reached on the backdrop of the policy’s role in redeeming parents from their economic and financial burden. This study, therefore, looks at the effect of introducing the free senior high school policy on the economic and social lives of parents and students respectively. A correlational cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Questionnaires were administered to three hundred and thirty-six (336) parents of wards in three senior high schools in the North East and Upper East Regions of Ghana. The study confirms that the introduction of the free senior high school policy relieved the financial burden of parents, especially guardians from rural settlements. Besides, there was a lack of adequate stakeholder consultation, hence saddled with implementation challenges. Delay in disbursement of funds for feeding and learning materials presented yet another problem. It is important that governments find sustainable sources of funding for the educational system and also ensure the double-track system is regularised into a single-track system by expanding academic user facilities and increasing the numerical strength of both teaching and non-teaching staff in various senior high schools.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.47857/irjms.2020.v01si02.038

Article Subject Details

• Accounting and finance
• Education and social science
• Finance management
• Financial management
• Management and Accounting

Article Keywords Details

• Education
• Free Senior High School Policy
• Operationalisation
• Parents and their Wards

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