The Minister of education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has sounded a word of caution on any attempt to abolish the SHS double track system should NDC win the 2024 general elections.
According to him, any attempt to abolish the double track system will have a ripple effect on the education system particularly with students benefiting from the free senior high school policy.
Speaking at the state of Ghana’s Education to the clergy in the Ashanti Region today, Tuesday October 29, 2024, the Minister explained that government is putting measures in place to remove the double track system gradually by constructing more dormitories to accommodate more students.
“Cancelling the double track system for political reasons could add up to the existing problems facing the education sector”.
Highlighting some of the measures put in place by the government to roll out the double track system, Dr. Osei Adutwum emphasized that transition calendars have been put in place in Schools who are still running the double track system to move them away from it while other schools have already transitioned from the double track system
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Citing an example, he said “Tamale senior high School has transitioned from the double track system and with the same efforts, Opoku Ware Senior High will no longer run the double track system in the next academic calendar due to the newly built dormitories the government has put up over there”.
He chastised the NDC for not understanding the implications the cancelation of the double track system will bring upon students in their next administration “if they win the 2024 general elections”.
“1,500 students wouldn’t have gained admission to PRESEC this year without the existence of the double track system and government can’t afford to cancel the track system because of purely political reasons”, he added.