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The Campus Association of Students with Special Needs has applauded President John Dramani Mahama and his administration for the introduction of the free tertiary education for persons with disabilities.
The group added that the move would improve quality education among students living with disabilities and eliminate barriers such as financial constraints that affect their access to education for their development.
This decision was announced in the 2025 Budget Statement, delivered by Minister of Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, on Tuesday, March 11.
Previously, students in this category received bursaries for the payment of academic and residential fees through the Scholarship Secretariat.
In an interview, the President of the Campus Association of Students with Special Needs, Godsway Dzornu, expressed hope that payments under the new initiative would be processed more swiftly than those under the Scholarship Secretariat.
“This initiative, if implemented, will go a long way to help us as special needs students because sometimes our needs are expensive, which makes caregivers and parents find it difficult to support us. And then also, sometimes the Scholarship Secretariat does not release the bursary on time.
“Even last year, we were not able to get our bursary because the issue was that there were not enough funds, whereas this one, not yet implemented, I feel it should be better than the earlier system from the Scholarship Secretariat,” he stated, according to a report by citinewsroom.com.
He called on the students to all embrace the new initiative by the government to help them address some of their basic needs that deprive them of accessing quality education.
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Meanwhile, watch as Otumfuo urges government to cancel or review Free SHS if students cannot be fed or accommodated
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