The GES’ latest news on SHS and Basic School Reopening Dates shows that the GES will not alter the reopening dates easily to help avoid the disruption of the 2024-2025 academic calendar.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) calendar for the 2024-2025 academic year indicates that Senior High Schools will reopen on 3rd January 2025. However, the calls by CHASS for the reopening date to be postponed or pushed forward have gained popularity among students, teachers, and parents.
The reasons given by CHASS for this suggestion include the lack of funds to cater to feeding, logistics, utilities, and other essentials. The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has already disclosed that if the government fails to pay all outstanding bills owed to suppliers, schools cannot reopen.
While we await a final decision from the GES on the matter, reports have surfaced suggesting that the GES has postponed the reopening date from 3rd January 2025 to 10th January 2025 in response to CHASS’s concerns.
Some of the information sighted by the reliable Ghana Education News portal includes the following on SHS and Basic School Term 2 Reopening Dates:
First Message:
Ghana Education Service:
Hello students from double-track schools, especially Form Threes. According to the Minister of Education, Hon. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the reopening date has been rescheduled to 10th January 2025. Please share this message with your fellow students. Thank you.
Another similar message reads as follows:
Postponement of Reopening Date for SHS3
Students in SHS1 and SHS3 were originally scheduled to reopen on 3rd January 2025. Due to unforeseen reasons, the reopening date has been postponed to 12th January 2025. All SHS facilitators should take note of this. Guardians and parents should also note that SHS2 students will reopen later, with the reopening month remaining March 2025. The exact date will be announced in February 2025.
Our team fact-checked the circulating news on this matter and found the following useful updates for schools, teachers, students, and parents:
The Ghana Education Service has clarified that the reopening dates remain unchanged. Senior High Schools will reopen on 3rd January 2025, while basic schools will reopen on 8th January 2025.
In the press release by GES, it called on CHASS to expect the government to resolve identified challenges.
“Meanwhile, Management of GES is engaging the ministry for a speedy resolution of concerns raised by the leadership of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary School (CHASS).”
SHS REOPENING DATE PRESS RELEASE
The management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) wishes to remind students, staff, parents, and the general public that the 2024-25 academic year calendar has not changed. As previously announced, SHS students are expected to report back to school on January 3, 2025, while primary and Junior High Schools will reopen on January 8, 2025.
Meanwhile, the management of GES is engaging the ministry for a speedy resolution of concerns raised by the leadership of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary School (CHASS).
We kindly request that all stakeholders take note of these dates and make necessary arrangements accordingly.
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