The current economic current has affected all areas of our lives including the educational sector. There has been an over 200% spike in the price of everything from school supplies to transportation and food. With the hike in prices of goods and services, many parents have been greeted with the shock of the quantum of expenditure to be incurred as schools reopen for their wards.
Educating a child comes with so much cost to the parents, in the quest to provide a better future for their wards. Parents do not only pay school fees, they pay for uniforms, transportation, books and stationery, feeding, after-school care and extra curricula activities.
For private schools in Ghana, the fees are much higher as compared to public schools because the former have more facilities and a more friendly environment for teaching and learning. Primary tuition in public schools in Ghana has been free and compulsory since 1961 and remains so to this day.
Private schools are characterized by richer curricula, high tuition, and more advanced learning facilities which are credited for their high-quality education. Private schools have always been known as schools for the “rich” but even now can the “rich” afford these schools? Some parents in Kumasi have noted that due to the skyrocketed tuition fees in the private basic schools, they have been forced to withdraw their wards from those institutions. Their only option now is to enrol their children in public schools. The parents deem it fit to provide education that is both excellent and reasonably priced for their wards.
This phenomenon has led to a drop in intake in private basic schools. This will affect the operations of the schools since they require more capital to run their schools effectively.
What will be the outcome of this? Will the private schools be forced to lower their tuition fees so that parents can afford to enrol or retain their wards in the schools or will we see the closure of some of the private schools in the wake of the economic crisis?
Parents are now in a dilemma and the education of their wards is in jeopardy. Nonetheless, public basic schools provide good quality education as they recruit only trained and qualified teachers in the basic schools. However, there is this prestige that comes with attending a private school that every child wants to have.
Are private schools taking advantage of the economic challenge to overprice their services? Maybe there should be some sort of regulation of private basic schools to ensure that they charge reasonable fees for their educational services.
Priscilla Fumadorh
Priscilla is an entrepreneur and a creative communicator who loves to communicate through writing. She is passionate about national economic issues and does not miss a chance to offer her opinions on them for the good of the country.
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