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Haruna Iddrisu, the Minister of education, has urged parents to work with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to enforce a stringent policy about acceptable hairstyles for senior high school pupils nationwide.
The Minister clarified that the directive’s goal is to encourage consistency, discipline, and equity among secondary school pupils during a stakeholder engagement held on Monday, October 27, at the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) in Accra.
“After a certain age, when they get into tertiary institutions, they are free to wear what kind of hairstyle they want, but not at the basic, secondary level.
“Therefore, I demand the cooperation and support of parents for the GES to strictly and religiously enforce this directive.
“It’s for the purpose of uniformity. And as I indicated, if we give in to hair, tomorrow it will be shoe, the kind of shoe to wear or not to wear,” he stated.
Before making any public announcements about government policies or programs, all Ministers of State are reminded by the office of the Cabinet Secretary to properly follow established Cabinet processes.
The warning is in reaction to an increasingly common practice in which certain ministers have made significant announcements on behalf of the government without first consulting Cabinet or getting its consent.
No policy, program, or significant initiative will be regarded as official Government policy until it has been submitted to, discussed, and approved by Cabinet, in accordance with governance procedures and the Constitution’s collective responsibility principle, according to the Cabinet statement sighted by Ghanatodayonline.com on Monday, October 27.
Ministers are requested to submit all proposed policies, programmes, or legislative initiatives to the Cabinet Secretariat through the Chief Director of their respective Ministries. These items will then be placed on the Cabinet agenda for consideration.
The directive emphasises that adherence to this process is essential for maintaining policy coherence, ensuring collective Cabinet responsibility, and guaranteeing that Government communications reflect the unified and approved position of the Administration.
Since such activities will not be recognized as official Government policy, ministers have been warned to abstain from making any public pronouncements or putting projects into action without Cabinet approval.
In closing, the Office of the Cabinet Secretary urged all ministers to follow the appropriate guidance.
In the meanwhile, the Ministry of Education has made it clear that not all basic school levels are covered by the use of Ghanaian languages as the medium of teaching; only Kindergarten through Primary Three (Lower Primary) are.
This clarification comes after sector minister Haruna Iddrisu issued a directive requiring Ghanaian languages to be taught in schools, a move that has generated a lot of public discussion.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
