The renewal of licenses for established schools will now be done every three years, the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has directed.
The schools are, however, supposed to pay their license (subscription) fees yearly.
Explaining the rationale for the decision, the minister said the yearly licensing “puts the schools on edge that this year, they are licensed, next year they may not be licensed and so, what we have directed as a ministry is that the licensing regime should be three years.”
“In that way, we are separating licensing from the mere payment of fees that are due to National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA),” Dr Adutwum explained.
He said what NaSIA sought to do with the publication of the list of schools that had not paid their licenses for the 2021/2022 was meant to indicate that those schools were “delinquent” and not that they were not licensed.
“All that NaSIA sought to do was to indicate that their fees have delayed. They were no way saying that those schools that were published have no authority to operate in the country,” he further clarified.
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