The Ministry of Education says the government is on course in completing and using E-Block Senior High Schools.

Only 60 of the 200 schools have so far been completed and operationalized.

Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei-Adutwum, together with community leaders at Apagya in Ashanti Region have ensured the operationalization of one of the schools.

“I personally created a platform on whatsapp and made sure everybody who needed to be there was on it so that I could supervise very well. At a point I had to talk with community leaders on the phone for what we are seeing now to materialize”, he explained.

Dormitory facilities for both males and females are completed in some of these schools including Apagya SHS to give access to students from far communities.

The Apagya Senior High School in the Adansi South District is about ninety percent complete.

Though the school block is painted, classrooms are yet to be furnished, but some equipment are installed in the laboratory.

Following the heightened concerns of many in the community, steps were taken to operationalize the school.

With the completion of a boarding facility, efforts were made for students to be admitted into the school.

Public Relations Officer for Adansi South Education Directorate, James Kusi Duku, says students who have been out of the Senior Hugh School since 2019 were given opportunity to be in the school.

“Students who couldn’t go to school after being placed were also accepted”, he said.

Presently, the school runs three courses namely General Arts, Home Economics and Visual Arts.

168 students are presently enrolled, all of them being boarders.

The Education Minister reveals steps are being taken to complete the school to ramp up enrollment.

“Whatever is not there will be there but we had to begin and we have begun. Therefore, we will get to the intended destination”, he assured.

The 200 Community Day Senior High Schools project which commenced in 2014 was to enhance access to secondary education in the country.

Contracts were awarded for 124 of them.

Following the takeover of power by the New Patriotic Party, many of the schools remained uncompleted with a few completed ones yet to be put to use.

Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, explains there was a policy shift for some of the schools in hard-to-reach areas to operate as boarding schools.

“In many other schools we are going on the same tangent, if there will not be enough students for the school to operate effectively as a day school then the only way out will be to add a dormitory and then open the school as a full fledge high school”, he said