Basic Schools To Vacate Next Week; Check Out Term 3 Reopening Date

All public Basic schools in Ghana, will officially vacate next week, Thursday, 11th April, 2024. This will bring an end of the second term of the 2023/2024 academic year.
This is a very short vacation as students are expected return back to school on 30th April, 2024. It is a two-week vacation for basic schools.
Term two of the 2023/2024 academic year began on 9th January, 2024. The third term will start from 30th April, 2024 to July 25, 2024.
Basic Schools To Vacate Next Week
The 2023/2024 academic calendar for both basic schools and SHS has been designed in such a way that this year’s academic year will end on 25th July 2024.
Following the outbreak of this pandemic, the academic calendar for all schools, including tertiary institutions changed. However, the 2023/2024 academic calendar will surely bring back the old academic calendar where academic year usually starts in October.
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2024 BECE Registration
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released the fee for the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) registration.
As you already know, the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be written in July. The registration for the exams has already begun. According to the West African Examination Council (WAEC), the 2024 BECE registration started on 11th March, 2024. The deadline for registration is 19th April, 2024.
The BECE for School Candidates is a school examination and is available to students in the third/final year of Junior High School only. It is therefore against the rules and regulations of the examination for schools to engage in the following activities;
- Solicit for students and advertise the BECE in any form e.g. in the print, electronic or social media;
- Register students who have not been enrolled in junior high school from their first year through to the third year and do not have the required continuous assessment records. The grading for the BECE is 70% external examination score and 30% continuous assessment score. Students who for one reason or the other transferred from one school to the other should have evidence of the necessary continuous assessment records;
- Register students who are not in final year or are not bona fide students of the school in question. We have received intelligence reports of some students in public schools who move from their schools to private schools to register for the examination because of assurances of obtaining good grades by these schools.