Second-cycle schools calendar to be restored to ‘September’ – GES
Following the restoration of the basic schools’ academic calendar to September, an official of the Ghana Education Service says plans are underway for the second-cycle schools calendar to be restored to the pre-coronavirus era.
His comment comes after then Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa said the academic calendar for Senior High Schools is expected to reverse to normalcy in 2024.
In a 2022 interview with Citi News monitored by Pretertiary.com, the former GES Director said “Though Ghanaian candidates are the only group to sit for exams during this period, they will join their other counterparts in West Africa by 2024.”
The second-cycle school calendar before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic was from September 2019 to August 2020 with a basic principle that students would have 8 months of contact time in a 12-month calendar year.
Meanwhile, Ghana is unable to participate in the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates (SC) because the calendar for senior high schools has yet to be fully reset.
Currently, final-year Senior High School (SHS) students in the country are sitting the Ghana version of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School for the third successive year.
However, the other four member countries of WAEC — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia — have already returned to the May/June calendar for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates.
A total of 460,611 candidates representing 212,954 males and 247,657 females from 1,003 Senior High Schools across the country are participating in the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School.
Ongoing at 1,000 centres across the country, the management of the not-for-profit-making organization in a statement sighted by Pretertiary.com said the figure is 2.66% higher than the 2023 entry figure of 448,674.
The 2024 edition of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates which commenced with Visual Art Project work on August 5, 2024, will end on Friday, September 20, 2024.