Reversal of 4-yr SHS system to 3yrs “disappointing” – Djagmah

Educationist Prof Jerome Djagmah has said the reversal of the four-year Senior High School system to three years is disappointing.

Speaking at the IMANI-#OccupyGhana forum on education organised in Accra Thursday, the former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service said: “I was very disappointed…”.

According to him, the Government must realise that the problems with Ghana’s education system cannot be fixed with a one-size-fits-all approach.

The three-year SHS system was extended by a year during the Kufuor administration in 2007.

It was meant to help students in less privileged schools have an extra year of Senior High School education.

Prof Djagmah, who is one of the proponents of the one-year extension, says the administration, which reversed the system, should have granted selective autonomy to some Senior High Schools to implement the four-year system.

According to him, a blanket reversal to the three-year system does not inure to the benefit of students in rural and deprived communities in Ghana, who write the same final examination with their peers.