Parents will pay for the cost of the newly introduced school uniform for Junior High School pupils in the country, the Ghana Education Service has said.
The uniform, unveiled by the GES in Accra Thursday, will replace the popular brown and yellow khaki uniform which has been used for over 30 years now.
The move forms part of the new reforms in the educational sector announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo during his State of the Nation’s address in February this year.
This reform will among other things see the implementation of new curricula from next academic year in September.
Speaking at news conference, the Director-General of GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku Amankwa explained the new uniform was chosen by after a broader consultation.
“The minister through consultations, presented a memo to cabinet which was duly accepted for us to change the junior high school uniform,” he said.
Why this new uniform?
“The idea is for them [JHS pupils] to start seeing themselves as secondary school students; they are in lower secondary [now]” he explained.
He argued that the current education structure is such that pupils in the JHS level are part of primary school “so they tend to see themselves as primary school students. The idea is to psychologically let them see themselves as in secondary school”.
Prof. Amankwa said the wearing of the new uniform will start from next academic year which begins from September. The old uniform, he indicated, will be phased out with time but did not give a deadline to it.
Source: 3news
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OH I THOUGHT EVERY WAS FREE BY THE NPP GOVERNMENT. THIS ONE THEY SAY PARENTS SHOULD PAY. TAKE A LESSON FROM THE LIES THEY TELL.
You see my concern is the giving away of money to importer to bring in this material while a fiat can be giving to the ministry for the material to be printed in Ghana. Mass a the government wants to create money for family and friends other than that how can a whole GES boss say he does not care where the material will com from
where is this one coming from? you have nothing doing at the ministry. parents to pay for what?improve the quality of education and stop doing a fashion show,please get serious
Change in uniform and name meaning better grade to enter SHS for free. Hmmmm
Really when you are in Govt and everything is at your disposals, and you begin to see money like water people never reason well again unless you are out of power.
Can not the Govt change the brown and yellow khaki uniform into trousers for the JHS students instead? Those stakeholders producing the old materials what are they going to do since they borrowed money printed those materials. What a shameeee?