The double-track system, which was implemented in 2018 to accommodate the rise in enrolment of Junior High School students into Senior High Schools, will not be used for first-year Senior High School students in the 2022/2023 academic year.
The Ministry of Education claims that enough preparations have been made to guarantee that schools are equipped to accept first-year pupils.
Mr. Kwasi Kwarteng, the Education Ministry’s Public Relations Officer, indicated in an interview on Citi FM, an Accra-based radio station, that the constrained infrastructural situation that caused the double-track has improved.
“That whole idea about dividing students into two where within a particular year group, we have one group go to school and after some weeks or months, they vacate and the other one comes to school, this time around we are not going to see that arrangement again. There has been significant improvement in terms of infrastructure,” he said.
He said that the GETFund had secured the completion of roughly 1,400 infrastructure projects that enabled the suspension of the double-track system.
“In 2017, GETFund did an infrastructure review and realized that over 3,700 projects had been abandoned. Just after last year, over 1,400 of these projects has been done so clearly the result of this is accommodation to a large extent, so that brings a significant improvement in the accommodation situation we’ve been talking about.”
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SOURCE: GRAPHIC ONLINE
