Double Track System to End 2025: Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum
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The Deputy
Minister of Education in charge of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Yaw Osei
Adutwum has disclosed that, the double track system will be completely eliminated
by the year 2025.
Dr
Yaw Osei Adutwum said, this is due to the pace at which infrastructural
projects in various Senior High Schools will be constructed.
He
said the Gross Attendant Ratio in Tertiary education in Ghana currently, is 17
percent which is one of the highest in Africa but low when compared to the
advanced countries.
Dr, Adutwum emphasized the need for the Government to
implement the double track system for equal accessibility of Free Senior High
School (SHS) policy.
“we
need as a country to support the double Tracking system to enable our children
have access to Senior High School education without a significant number
staying home because of infrastructure deficit”
He
noted that, not every SHS will undergo the double tracking and that about 8800
trained teachers will be deployed to various Districts and Municipal Assemblies,
where the schools have double intake of qualified students.
Accordingly,
research has shown that, an estimated excess of 300 students enrolled in this
SHS has resulted in the double intake and that can be eliminated by
constructing unit classroom blocks for all the affected schools.
The
double track system if due diligence is taken, will help the country in
achieving the educational goal under the Sustainable Development Goals rather
than having all infrastructure and social amenities before implementing the Free
SHS Policy, he added.
Speaking
on the newly employed teachers, Dr Adutwum said the teachers applied on-line and
are undergoing screening.
“They will after verification be ready to be deployed
to the various schools affected by the double intake per the number the school
requested for”.
The
infrastructure projects in these affected schools will be under the Ghana
Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) thus the reason for eliminating double track
system within 7 years, Dr Adutwum concluded.
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