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Second-year SHS Students To Remain On Double-track – NAPO

Burn Keita by Burn Keita
25th October 2019
in Education, Local News
Second-year SHS Students To Remain On Double-track – NAPO

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The government has announced that second-year senior high school (SHS) students will remain on the double-track system when the next academic year begins in September this year.

The announcement follows the delay in the execution of the additional projects being embarked on by schools operating the double-track system in the country.

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, who announced this when the ministry took its turn at the meet-the-press series in Accra Wednesday [July 24, 2019] however said the phasing out of the double-track system for the second-year students would be based on when the additional infrastructure would be ready in each school.

GETFund

The government earlier this year released $500 million from the securitisation of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) for the completion of abandoned infrastructure and the construction of new structures in the double-track schools.

About 766 abandoned and new structures were to be completed across the country, especially in schools running the double-track system to provide enough classrooms to phase out the system for second-year students from September this year.

The understanding was that the double-track would only be operational at the first-year level, as the students would move on to a single track when they progressed to the second and third years.

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Delays

However, Dr Prempeh explained that even though the fund had been released, some of the contractors had not been able to complete their projects, “and so Cabinet had to decide that we will still do the double track but as the project comes on stream, we will move it into single track. We had to be realistic”.

He explained that as and when a school was able to complete its additional infrastructure, it would obviously move its form two students into a single track.

School by school

“So it is going to be school by school, infrastructure by infrastructure,” Dr Prempeh said, explaining that even those schools which were operating single tracks could be moved to double-track depending on the number of students who applied.

He said if it so happened that a single-track school that could admit, for example, 600 students and the number of candidates applying for admission was more, then that school would be moved into the double track.

He gave the assurance that whether it was single or double track, “does not make a student loos a single contact time.”

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Government commitment

Dr Prempeh reiterated that government was committed to phasing out the double-track system insisting that government was still on track with the timelines of between five and seven years.

He explained that the double-track system was meant to ensure that no child was left out in the government’s commitment to delivering assessable, equitable and quality education for all.

First & second years

According to the minister, the first semester for 2019/2020 academic year, will begin on September 16, 2019, for the Green Track students for both the first and second-year students, who will be in school until November 7, 2019, when they would begin their first vacation.

They will resume on January 6, 2020, and be in school until February 28, 2020, when the first semester would have ended.

For the Gold Track students, they will begin their first semester on November 12, 2019, through to February 28, 2020, when both tracks will end the first semester.

For the second semester, the Green Track students will begin on March 2, 2020, until May 8, 2020, when their first vacation will commence until they return to school on July 14 until September 4, 2020, when they would have ended their second semester.

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Additional information on the system explained that, for the Gold Track Students, their second semester begins on May 14, 2020, until September 4, 2020, when both tracks would have ended the semester together.

Third years

It said, third years, however, will be reporting to school for the first semester on August 19, 2019 until December 20, 2019, when they would have ended their first semester and to resume on March 2, 2020, up to June 10, 2020, before the commencement of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) which begins on July 10 to September 5, 2020.

The third years will use the August 19 to September 16 as a one-month intervention session on campus, before commencing the official first semester on September 16, 2019.

Mid semesters

The first midsemester for the academic year begins from November 8 to November 11, 2019, while the second mid-semester break is from April 9, 2020, to April 13, 2020.

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