Government spends 75.4m GH on SHS 3 students

 

 

The government will absorb the full examination fees of all final-year students sitting for this year’s West Africa Senior School Certification Examination (WASSCE).

This was announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo in a televised address on Sunday, 21 June 2020.

The President said: “For the first time in our nation’s history, the government will absorb the WASSCE examination fees of the 313,837 students who will sit for the exams. GHS75.4 million will be spent on this. These SHS 3 students, also referred to by some as ‘Akufo-Addo graduates’, are also the first group of beneficiaries of the government’s free SHS beneficiaries to sit for the examination”.

 

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