There is raging anger on social media following the latest announcement by the Ghana Education Service (GES) that it is introducing new school uniforms for all basic schools.
Questions have already been raised if that will improve on the performance of students who sit for Basic Certificate Examination (BECE) with others describing it as an entirely needless exercise which is only meant to enrich someone.
But according to the GES, students are expected to start wearing the new school uniform from next academic year, 2019 – 2020.
Director-General of the GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku Amankwa announced this at a press conference in Accra on Thursday morning as part of reforms by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
According to him, he is modeling Ghana’s education system to suit what pertains in advanced countries like Singapore, Finland, Canada, Japan, Korea, Malaysia among others.
These countries, like Ghana, president Akufo-Addo noted, have taken steps to make education “free from Kindergarten to Senior High School”, Akufo-Addo said.
Speaking at the 109th anniversary celebrations of the Adisadel College, Cape Coast, on Saturday, 9th March, 2019 the President said Ghana as a country is “proud to be a part of the nations in the world granting unfettered access to Senior High School education to all school-going children, a path that has been trodden by successful nations like the United States of America, Singapore, Finland, Canada, Japan, Korea and Malaysia”.
Source: MyNewsGh.com
