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The controversial double-track system seeks to ease congestion in public senior high schools (SHS). Education Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku-Prempeh, earlier said that only 400 out of the estimated 670 SHSs would run the double-track system for the 2018/2019 academic year.
It is believed that over 8,000 teachers are being recruited to handle the sandwich classes so that teachers would not be deprived of their holidays.Under the new system, teaching hours are due to increase from six hours per day to eight hours per day.
Teaching hours are expected to increase from 1,080 hours per year under the current trimester system to 1,134 hours per year under the proposed double-track system.
The double-track system, which has generated heated political debate, shall run in all the categories A and B senior high schools in the country.
There have been attempts by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to ‘pollute’ the minds of parents and students about the importance of the policy which seeks to enable many more Ghanaian students to access secondary education under the Free SHS policy.
Ex-President John Mahama, it would be recalled, took to his Twitter account on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, to condemn the system, saying cynically that “introducing shift system for SHS? It doesn’t help to continue to implement this all important Free SHS programme on an ad hoc basis.”
The NDC has already directed its communication team to follow the arguments of the party’s new kid on the block Sammy Gyamfi and Fred Agbenyo on the double-track system who have rubbished the programme.