According to information provided by the Ministry of Education, December 4, 2023, will still be the date of the Senior High School reopening.

The date was included in the Ghana Education Service’s 2023–2024 academic calendar and is applicable to both single-track and double-track students.

Concerns have been raised regarding how little time students have to get ready before reporting to school.

However, according to Kwasi Kwarteng, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education, the academic calendar was made public several weeks ago so that parents could make plans in advance.

“Resumption date for students within the SHS space remains Monday, December 4, 2023. The expectation is that students report on the first day. But let me also hasten to add that, the first-year students who are unable to report on the first day will not automatically lose their slots. Students can report the following day or even the following week, as we have always witnessed. If you look at the academic calendar, it had already been within the public space for some time now and the expectation was that parents, guardians, and even students prepared ahead of time,” he added.

This follows Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin’s request that the Ministry of Education reevaluate the schedule and move it to the first week of January 2024 in response to the Minority Caucus’s concerns about the insufficient time for students to prepare for returning to school.

“The house calls on and urges the Minister of Education to reconsider the directive by the Ministry of Education to students and authorities, including teaching and non-teaching staff, to resume academic work on Monday, December 4, 2023.”

“The house proposes for the consideration of the Ministry of Education the first week of January 2023 for the resumption of academic work in these schools. The Minister of Education is directed thereafter to report to brief the house on Monday, December 4.”