Education Minister Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has suggested that the double-track system in Senior High Schools will be cancelled under a potential Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia administration.
He stated that this decision stems from the next New Patriotic Party government’s plans to build more school facilities to accommodate a growing number of students nationwide.
Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, speaking at Dr Bawumia’s media engagement on education under the theme ‘Protecting Free SHS and Providing Skills for Jobs’ added that schools will soon be embarking on the single track system as initially observed.
The double-track system, implemented in 2018 to accommodate the overwhelming number of students under the Free SHS policy, works by dividing the total student population and staff into two tracks. While one track attends school, the other is on vacation, and vice versa.
“The double-track system will be brought to an end under Dr Bawumia’s government because he will build more school facilities that can accommodate the high student population. Some schools are no longer using the double-track system because we have built more facilities to accommodate their students.
“We have built facilities in Opoku Ware to accommodate about 4,500 student population so in the next academic year, they will no longer use the double-track system,” the minister said.
This has caused Free SHS to top X trends for Monday, November 11, 2024.
Some netizens criticize the government for implementing the double-track system despite inadequate school infrastructure. They argue that, instead of delivering its intended benefits, the system has negatively impacted students’ learning.
Read some of the tweets below:
So now you people know that we need more infrastructure to completely implement FSHS and when Mahama said same you said he wants to cancel FSHS
— Kofi Andoh (@Kofi_Good) November 10, 2024
This gov’t errr https://t.co/m3OjDljM7m
So they know the essence of building more schools before enrolling the FSHS .. https://t.co/aKMLhFNyXm
— AKWESI🇬🇭 (@_AlbertAkwesi) November 10, 2024
