Government is considering a possible extension of the duration of the Senior High School from three years to four years.
The Minister of Planning, Professor Gyan Baffour disclosed Wednesday, that government is monitoring the three years SHS system and will soon come out with a firm decision.
“The time lost, we have to make it up. That is the first thing that we are trying to do now, and based on that, we can now use the analysis that they do after that time, to see what the public thinks and to decide on whether we move for three years or four years,†he said.
The NPP administration under President John Kufuor introduced the 4-year Senior High School programme in 2007. However, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) reverted to the 3-year system after it regained power in 2009.
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Speaking at the launch of the Ghana Social Development Outlook 2016 at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, Prof. Gyan Baffour noted that, the limited time allotted for secondary education inhibited a thorough treatment of the syllabus.
The Minster noted that the three years under the current system, is effectively about two-and-a-half-years, so the government will look “to make sure that this ‘three years’ [actually] becomes almost three years.â€
 The government has implemented its flagship free SHS policy, and Prof. Baffour reminded that these interventions in secondary education are to make sure that money is not an obstruction to parents and their wards.
"Thus if a change to four years is deemed necessary, then money will not be considered a problem, in line with providing quality education, in addition to the free education."
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