The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has outlined in detail, the specific guidelines for the safe reopening of our schools and universities at a press briefing organised by the Ministry of Information on Tuesday, in Accra.
According to the Minister of Education who doubles as Manyhia constituency MP, the reopening is for only final year students to learn and complete their mandatory examinations, and nothing more; with social distancing protocols still in place.
He said on the reoping of schools on June 15, parents and gaurdians will not be allowed to visit their wards in boarding schools during the period.
He said students will also not be available for religious and sporting activities, as well as entitled to only four hours of teaching, from 9am to 1pm with 15 minutes break period every 45minutes.
In addition, there will not be the normal assembly periods with borders in SHS's going for dining in batches in adherance to the social distancing protocols.
All students will be provided with 3 resusable set of face masks to protect themselves while in school.
However, all days students would be accepted into boarding houses in Senior High Schools who provide accommodation for students.
He also cautioned parents not to send their unwell wards to school when they reopen.
BECE Exams
Junior High School students will be in school for 11 weeks to prepare for their BECE which will start in the 12th week.
WASSCE Exams
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh said due to the gravity of the pandemic, the Council has allowed for Ghana specific examinations for its students.
He said the Senior High Schools will have 5 weeks to study for their exams which will also start in the 6th week.
Universities reopening
Foreign university students will be quarantined for 2 weeks if they are able to make the necessary arrangement to come into the country with the closure of borders directive still in place.
Schools reopening
Schools have been reopened effective 15th June for only final year students of Junior High, Senior High and Universities.
"Indeed, final year university students are to report to their universities on 15th June; final year senior high school (SHS 3) students, together with SHS 2 Gold Track students, on 22nd June; and final-year junior high school (JHS 3) students on 29th June."
"JHS 3 classes will comprise a maximum of thirty (30) students; SHS classes a maximum of twenty-five (25) students, and University lectures will take place with half the class sizes," according to President Akufo-Addo.
Colleges of Education are also to reopen on the 15th of June for final year students to complete their exit examinations, he added.
Meanwhile, before the re-opening of schools and universities, the Ministry of Education, and the heads of public and private educational institutions, have been directed to fumigate and disinfect their institutions.
"Each student, teacher, and nonteaching staff will be provided with re-usable face masks by the Ministry of Education. For the avoidance of doubt, all other educational facilities, private and public, for non-final year students, will remain closed.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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15 mins break for nature's call...how come our democracy only ensures that edeots become ministers? Is it even necessary to include such a directive?
So a man like Ben can be so politically jaundiced and st00pid not to realize that in every school time table there are times allotted for breaks so students can stretch and attend to natures call but that does not mean that if the need is urgent a student can always ask a teacher's permission to use the wash room? It is difficult dealing with NDC illiterates like Ben who do not even know anything about how schools run and yet bring their ignorance into public discussions.
@ Ben, of all things that have been outlined, if the only issue you have is the 15min break, then I think you do not have any issue. You view everything with a political lens which makes you see nothing as good with the government.
This government is full of llunatic ministers. So they are now regulating nature's call too? What a government! Has it come to that? They are allotting time for going to poo poo? Oooooo my God! The time could even be an hour, I don't care, but it is not abnormal and unconventional to regulate time one spends in the toilet?Nana Addo's presidency will go into history as one of the most weird presidency in the world. How much time you spend in the toilet has now become one of the protocols in combating COVID 19. Amazing!