The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference is calling for upward adjustment of feeding fees for second-cycle institutions, describing the current rate as unrealistic.

Conference Episcopal Chairman for Education, Most Reverend Matthew Gyamfi, questions what authorities expects to be done with the current Gh 3.90p.

“What will be left to feed our teenagers on the 3 Ghana Cedis for breakfast, lunch and supper? This is not realistic”. Most Rev Gyamfi said.

Checks by Luv News revealed that students of public senior high schools currently pay between 3 Cedis and 3 Cedis 90pesewas for three square meals a day.

From this amount, a percentage is deducted as tax while same amount is used to cater for other items such as water and cooking utensils.

There are concerns about the quality of food this scanty amount can provide for students.

“How can we treat our young men and women like this, 3 Ghana Cedis for a day and even they are all not going into food”, Most Rev. Gyamfi quizzed.

He is worried political expediency is taking the better part of Ghana’s education development.

According to him,  the arguments that go into explaining some of these things are very “disheartening”.

“Education is expensive and I don’t think the state has all the resources to give the quality education that we need but at the same time for some reason of political convenience”.

“The state doesn’t want to tell people they cannot do it even with the little that really is not enough. It is very painful”. Worried Most Reverend Gyamfi explained.

In recent years, the Ghana Education Service has reviewed the school fees of both day and boarding students but little seem to have been done about the feeding.

Some head teachers who stack to old fees or increased them had been either transferred or demoted.

But addressing the Association of Catholic Heads of Higher Institutions at its 36^th Annual National Conference in Kumasi, the Catholic Church advised its members to stick what the GES has proposed to them.

National President of the Association of Catholic Heads of Higher Institutions,  Rev. Father Micheal Elorm Gbordzor,  is optimistic, this will enable them avoid any embarrassment.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Education Unit says it has not backed out on calls to decouple the management of catholic schools from the Ghana Education Service.