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Fee-free education policy and the Right to Education: Ghana’s Free Senior High School Programme’s implementation practices in perspective
  • Harry Amankwaah
Harry Amankwaah
Ghana Education Service

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Abstract

The impact Fee-free education policy inculcation of the Right to Education principles have on access to quality education at the secondary school level appears underrepresented. As such, this study explores Ghana’s Free Senior High School Programme’s implementation practices to fill this gap. It answers how inculcation of the Right to Education principles impact Fee-free education policy implementation practices, and the extent to which marginalization of the right holder have on access to quality education. The study employed the qualitative approach and a case study design respectively. A sample size of 8 respondents was selected for the study. They were selected via the purposive sampling method. The study reveals that Fee-free education increases access to education; yet, its implementation practices is discriminatory in so many ways which impedes quality education delivery. Therefore, a child friendly school practices will help address issues of marginalization associated with Fee-free education policy implementation in practice.