Free SHS: Gold track students begin classes today

Students placed in the second batch of the double track system known as Gold Track began reporting to their various senior high schools on Saturday.
Day students are expected to report on Monday, November 12, 2018, therefore, lessons begin today.

The system which forms part of the free Senior High School programme (SHS), began in September 2018 and saw students in the first batch, the Green Track attending school for two months.

Those placed in the Gold track waited within the two months period and are now beginning their academic year. They are also supposed to vacate in December 2018.

Josberta Gyan Kwakye, Head of Communications at the Free SHS Secretariat in an interview on Accra based Citi FM, said they are ready for the new group.

“Since we are at the weekend the boarders are expected to go to school for their prospectus and begin their admission processes while the day students are to report on Monday. We placed the students simultaneously so currently we are expecting a total number of about 470,000 to be in school for the 2018/2019 academic year. For the budgetary allocation, the government budgeted for GHc1.2 billion for the entire academic year,” she added.

Some regional reports indicated that in the Greater Accra Region, some students on the Gold Track at the St. Mary’s SHS said in a Citi News monitored by Prime News Ghana that, they are hoping their endeavours on campus will be successful.

People are now coming in, and the seniors are helping us with our things. I’m hoping that everything will be fine,” one of them said.

The Volta Region reported that students have begun reporting to their various schools of placement in the region