Ghana to get World Bank’s support to free senior high school policy: Hafez Ghanem

Ghana’s positive approach to broaden access to education, mainly through the free senior high school policy is highly being extolled by the World Bank. The international financial institution has not only lauded the Ghanaian government’s decision of widening it, but it has also assured to provide support to ensure the sustenance of the programme.

The World Bank has described the government of Ghana’s free senior high school policy ‘extremely important’ saying that it would assist the required support to the programme in creating an ‘educated human capital’, reducing child marriages to the barest minimum and dwindling school drop-out rates which had severe demographic and developmental challenges.

Hafez Ghanem, Vice President of the World Bank Africa, who arrived in Ghana on March 24, pledged the bank’s support for the programme during a courtesy call on President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House in the capital Accra on March 25.

Although Hafez Ghanem didn’t specify the kind of support World Bank intends to provide to the government of Ghana in support of free senior high school policy, he revealed that it would be under its human capital programme. “So anything we will do to keep the children, both boys and girls, in school until the end of secondary school is very critical and we will be delighted and help as much as we can,” he assured the President, Nana Akufo-Addo.

On the other hand, he discussed multiple issues with Ghanaian Head of State such as macroeconomic, monetary and fiscal policies and highlighted opportunities for pumping out funds in education and booming digital economy. This is Ghanem’s first visit to Ghana since becoming Vice President of the World Bank Africa in July 2018, as reported by Graphic Online.

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