{"id":12970,"date":"2025-09-01T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12970"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:38:31","slug":"fee-cut-for-nursing-training-students-under-government-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12970","title":{"rendered":"Fee cut for nursing training students under government initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Government through the Ministry of Health has announced a 50 per cent reduction in admission fees for all Nursing and Allied Health Training Institutions across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a release signed by the Ministry\u2019s Deputy Director and Spokesperson, Tony Goodman, on Sunday, August 31, 2025, he said the intervention will take effect from the 2025\/2026 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, had earlier mentioned that the initiative formed part of government policies earmarked to support health care workers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018No-Fee Stress\u2019 policy is designed to provide financial relief for students who are seeking academic qualification in the field.<\/p>\n<p>All Heads of the respective institutions have been urged to strictly adhere to the directive and avoid charging unauthorized fees from the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll institutions are strictly required to adhere to the approved fees and items as communicated by the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo institution is permitted to charge above the approved amount or demand payment for items covered under the policy,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Heads of the training institutions have also been directed to commence the necessary processes towards admitting students for the new academic year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/2025\/09\/01\/fee-cut-for-nursing-training-students-under-government-initiative\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-31-at-20-21-35-732x1024\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-31-at-20.21.35-732x1024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"732\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-31-at-20.21.35-732x1024-1.jpeg 732w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-31-at-20.21.35-732x1024-1-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-31-at-20.21.35-732x1024-1-360x504.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government through the Ministry of Health has announced a 50 per cent reduction in admission fees for all Nursing and Allied Health Training Institutions across the country. In a release signed by the Ministry\u2019s Deputy Director and Spokesperson, Tony Goodman, on Sunday, August 31, 2025, he said the intervention will take effect from the 2025\/2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":12972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,41,3507],"tags":[4002,1187,2097,4001],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general-news","category-national","tag-fee-cut","tag-government","tag-health-ministry","tag-nursing-trainee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12974,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions\/12974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}