The Executive Director of Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS), Mr. Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah, has appealed to operators of private schools across the country to be patient and more accommodating to parents, who may have some challenges in school fee payment.
According to him, this has become necessary following the increments in school fees and other materials such as books, maintenance fees and others.
“We all know the economic conditions we have found ourselves in as a country, in recent times, because there have been increments in everything on the market and so it is practically impossible for schools to continue operating at the same cost incurred last year,” she stated.
Mr. Gyetuah said one of the reasons why private schools only rely on fees increment for survival has to be a lack of no financial support but use their internally generated funds (fees) to run the school.
“Based on this, it has become a necessity for schools to review their fees upwards, to save themselves from collapse,” he added.
He said considering the fact that the teaming population of private schools staff whose livelihoods are dependent on what they earn from the jobs, have had to also suffer the unfriendly economic waves of recent times, and need salary adjustment, to help improve their current conditions.
“It is prudent that private schools also make some adjustment in their fees.:
“We however encourage schools to be considerate of the challenges of our parents in these reviews, and put in place, flexible payment plans, for parents who may have challenges in making outright fees payments, as expected,” he advised.
Mr. Gyetuah called on parents to make the necessary adjustments, to enable them to support the schools by honouring whatever payment obligations they have towards their ward’s schools, to empower the schools to continue delivering quality education.
“It is our prayer that God will continue to bless our homeland Ghana, and make the economic conditions better, for our collective peace,” he stated.
