The Ministry of Education has suspended the double-track system for the 2022/2023 academic calendar.
According to the ministry, adequate preparations have been made to accommodate the the student-intake for the year hence the need to abrogate the system.
The announcement from the ministry comes at a time students who have been successfully placed in their respective Senior High Schools are reporting to school.
The double-track system, which came along with the Free SHS policy of the Akufo-Addo-led administration, was introduced in 2018 to resolve issues regarding lack of space and infrastructure deficit as student enrollment increased for prospective SHS students.
However, explaining the reason for the suspension of the double track in a Citi News interview, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng said “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 emphasised noting that the lack of infrastructure to accommodate students which necessitated the system has been addressed.
Mr. Kwarteng added that “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.”
