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The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has urged the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ministry of Education to change the academic calendar to a trimester system once more.
According to the teacher union, second-cycle institution management and teachers are under strain as a result of the growing student population and the lengthened school year.
The ministry should respond to NAGRAT’s request immediately, according to Angel Carbonu, the organization’s president, who was speaking at a press conference on September 27.
He also expressed alarm over the government’s broken promise to end the double track system.
“It’s been some seven years ago that the government instituted and initiated the Free Senior High School. Associated with the Free SHS is the introduction of the double track. The reason the double track was introduced according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was for the track system to take care of the growing numbers of students because the facilities in the schools at that time, couldn’t contain the numbers”.
The government promised us at that time that within five years, the double-track system would be a thing of the past. It said it would ask the Ghana Education Trust Fund to put up facilities and structures in the schools to cater for the increase in number” he stated.
“Unfortunately, the five-year period elapsed two years ago and yet 40% of the SHSs are still running the double-track. The double track is coming up with attendance problems and challenges. The system has placed untold pressure on the management and teachers of the schools. We are calling on the GES, the Ministry and by extension the government to reset the school calendar to what it used to be” he added.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
