Despite requests to reevaluate the reopening date, first-year senior high school students nationwide are anticipated to report to their respective schools today.
For a variety of reasons, parents and other pertinent stakeholders have requested an extension of the reporting date; however, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has insisted on the December 4 date.
Additionally, the Minister of Education was urged by Parliament to think about moving the reopening date from Monday, December 4 to the first week of January.
The Parliamentary Service in a statement noted that, “due to the short notice with its attendant inconvenience to students, parents, teaching, and non-teaching staff, the House proposes for the consideration of the Hon. Minister of Education the first week of January 2024 as a more convenient and appropriate time for parents, students, and teachers to adequately prepare for academic work.”
Parliament’s plea was, however, turned down by the GES. GES in a statement noted that “it is the expectation of management that schools begin registration and orientation of students from the 4th of December 2023.”
585,797 out of a total of 598,839 candidates were placed in various Senior High Schools and Technical and Vocational Education and Training Schools (TVET) across the country through the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).
The Deputy Spokesperson of the Educational Ministry, Yaw Opoku Mensah, in a Citi News interview, urged parents facing placement challenges to visit some dedicated centres across the country to have those resolved.
“It has been a system by the Ghana Education Service and that of the Ministry of Education that any time you release placement outcome, definitely students will come with a lot of issues, change of status. So once you have such a challenge, then you can walk to the national office at Adabraka and all the 16 administrative regions; we also have it over there. We also have a command centre that works 24/7,” he said.
SOURCE: Citinews
