Ghana: Free academic user fee policy: target students who cannot pay  …experts urge NDC

Two education experts have rec­ommended that the National Demo­cratic Congress (NDC) focus its proposed free academic user fee policy specifically on first-year stu­dents in public universities who are genuinely unable to pay the fees, rather than applying it universally to all students.

Dr Peter Anti, Executive Direc­tor of the Institute of Education Studies, and Mr Kofi Asare, Exec­utive Director of African Educa­tion Watch, argued that a targeted strategy would prevent…