The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked heads of public basic schools to stop demanding fees from students before allowing them to take exams.
The directive from GES comes on the back of some school heads threatening to stop students from writing exams if their parents are unable to pay their examination fees.
Acting Director of GES, Professor Ernest Kofi Davis, speaking on the issue, noted that public basic schools are not to charge students examination fees.
Speaking in a media interview, Professor Kofi Davis described such actions as unacceptable and warned that any head of school found violating the policy would face sanctions.
“I have requested my team to write to school heads to inform them that they are not supposed to take exam fees from public school students, so they have to desist from doing that. They are not expected to take examination fees from students, so what they are doing is unacceptable. If we get any head doing that, we’ll sanction that head.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
