By: Valentia Tetteh
Public Basic Schools in Ghana resumed a new academic year on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 per the new GES calendar. GBC News Team visited some public schools in the city to witness the readiness of teachers and students as the new academic term began.
According to the Ghana Education Service (GES), the 2023 Academic year for first and second-cycle schools across the country commences on Tuesday.
It would be the first semester for second-cycle schools, and first term for basic schools. This is the third year in a row in which the academic year is commencing in January, after it was altered by the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from March 2020, during which schools were forced to close down.
Previously, the academic year began in September every year.
Per the provisional 2023, academic calendar released by the Ministry of Education and the GES to Heads of Institutions, Double track has been abolished.
Only two-year groups of the three cohorts of students in Senior High school (SHS) are to be in school at any given time for the academic year.
GBC News visited some school centres to witness the preparation of Heads of schools, teachers and students as they embrace the new academic year as well as new class entries.
At the St. Kizito Catholic school and Nima Cluster of Schools in Accra, pupils were cleaning up the compound as well as arranging the desks in the classrooms to get ready for lessons as their teachers supervised them to work effectively.
For the first trimester of the Academic Year, the Private Schools Council said students will re-open on January 10, 2023, to commence academic activities until April 28, 2023, and go on a 15 days’ vacation.