The Ministry of Education has planned to turn more day Senior High Schools in rural areas into boarding houses.
This is to allow the Ministry to address challenges with the double track system which has affected about 150,000 students.
Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, said this when he inaugurated a committee to focus on the need to reverse the double track system in the education sector.
The sector Minister explained that more day schools in rural areas will be turned into boarding houses.
“A few of the schools, we will convert them into boarding schools. It is very necessary, particularly in the rural areas,” he said.
“The double track system has affected learning hours and contact time, and the amount of time students will ordinarily be in school, all of us here we have been to school before when you do two months you are asked to go home, and another people will come back it will naturally affect quality.” Many of the E blocks that were being constructed we will have to see to the completion of those E blocks in order that we can expand access,” the Minister noted.
He directed the committee to ensure that the free Senior High School (SHS) is fully implemented in private schools.
“You recall that even part of the manifesto pledge was to extend it to the private senior high schools. Don’t hesitate to let us know what it would cost? What we want is every qualified Ghanaian child who deserves must have access to it,” he urged.
The committee is chaired by Professor Peter Grant. Other members are Professor Samuel Atintono (PRINCOF), Professor Godwin Awabil (U.C.C), Professor Smile Dzisi, Deputy Director General, GES in charge of Management Services, Dr. Munawaru Issahaque, Deputy Director General, GES in charge of Quality and Access, D.W Gbenyo (WAEC), Dr. Rosemond Wilson (WAEC), Mr. Augustus Agyemfra (CODE), Mr. David Odjidja (CHASS), Addo Nicholas Nii Kpakpo (COHBS), Prince Charles Agyeman-Duah, Schools and Instructions Division, GES.
