Parliament has requested the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, to rethink the directive by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to recent college students, educating and non-teaching employees to start educational work on Monday, December 4, 2023.
An announcement by the Parliamentary Service famous that “due to the short notice with its attendant inconvenience to students, parents, teaching and non-teaching staff, the House proposes for the consideration of the Hon. Minister of Education the first week of January 2024 as a more convenient and appropriate time for parents, students and teachers to adequately prepare for academic work.”
There have been considerations in regards to the brief interval college students have to organize in reporting to high school.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng, nonetheless, said the tutorial calendar was launched weeks in the past to permit mother and father to organize forward of time.
The Ministry of Education on Thursday, November 30, maintained that the reopening date for recent Senior High School college students stays December 4, 2023.
The date, which is for each single and double-track college students, was contained within the 2023/2024 educational calendar launched by the Ghana Education Service.
The Parliamentary Service within the assertion dated Friday, December 1, added “In view of the urgency of this matter and varied considerations raised by Members of Parliament and different stakeholders, the Rt. Hon Speaker, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has directed the Minister of Education to seem earlier than the House and temporary Members on Monday, December 4, 2023, at 12:30 pm.
Attached is the complete assertion by the Parliamentary Service