Editor of the Custodian Newspaper, Awudu Mahama has expressed his confidence in the immediate end of the double-track system that comes along with the Free SHS policy by stating that the double-track will be terminated by the end of this year.
In the Special ‘Editors’ Take’ edition of the Happy Morning Show, he told Samuel Eshun: “By the end of this year, the double track system will be off because of the infrastructure put in place by this government in all the schools”.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, in a press briefing last year announced that the double-track system within the Senior High School (SHS) level in the country is bound to take about five to seven years before it would be totally eliminated from the second cycle institutions.
Reacting to this information, Awudu noted that the government had made recommendations to ensure that the time for the elimination will be reduced.
“Every project you will start, there will be teeming problems. Just after the comment he [the minister] made, you will realize that the government recommended that they should do it within a lesser period.
It is about how you tackle the problem. If you are determined to fulfill your promises, you will find the means to do so”.
With the introduction of the Free SHS policy, the government began the double-track system to create room to absorb more students to enter SHSs, thus increasing enrolment, reducing class sizes, increasing contact hours and the duration of holidays, by making use of the existing infrastructure.
However, some people have held a different opinion to this system insisting that government needed to focus on infrastructure to accommodate more students as an alternative to the double track system.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah
