Stop taking exam fees in public basic schools – GES to School Heads

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has called on heads of public basic schools to stop demanding fees from students before allowing them to take exams.

This comes on the back of some school heads threatening to stop students from writing exams if their parents are unable to pay.

However, speaking an an interview on Morning Starr with Naa Dedei Tettey, the Acting Director of GES, Professor Ernest Kofi Davis, stated that public basic schools are not to charge students examination fees.

He labeled 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 schools heads to inform them that they are not supposed to take exams fee from public school students so they have to desist from doing that. They are not expected to take examinations fee from students, so what they are doing is unacceptable. If we get any head doing that we’ll sanction that head.”