BECE 2023 Senior High School placement will be fast tracked – GES
The Ghana Education Service says a strategy that would fast-track the computer Senior High School placement had been put in place to ensure the 2023 BECE graduates report to their various placed second cycle schools on December 4, 2023.
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Eric Nkansah in an interview with the Daily Graphic said the December 4, 2023 reporting date for the first-year students is plausible amid the the computer school placement strategy.
Commenting on the 2023/2024 Senior High School academic calendar, he said the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Eric Nkansah, gave an assurance that everything would go on smoothly as scheduled.
SHS 1 students
Per the transitional calendar for double-track students, Form One students will be in school from December 4, 2023, to March 5, 2024. They will, however, return to school on May 13, 2024, until July 9, 2024.
They are due to go on break again on July 10, 2024, and reopen on September 3 up to November 15, 2024, when the academic year ends.
On the other hand, single-track students will report to school from December 4 until March 15, 2024, and go on vacation from March 16, 2024, to May 2, 2024. The second semester will begin on May 3, 2024, until August 28, 2024, when the academic calendar will end.
SHS 2 & 3 students
Form Two and Form Three students under the single track system will report to school today until March 5, 2024, and begin the end of the first-semester break from March 6 to May 2, 2024.
They will return to school on May 3, 2024, to begin the second semester up to August 28, 2024, to end the academic year.
However, Form Two students under the double track system will have to wait until March 8, 2024, to begin the first semester until May 9, 2024, to end the semester.
The second semester will begin on July 12, 2024, until November 15, 2024, when the academic year will come to an end.
It is significant to note that the Christmas break will be from December 21, 2023, to January 2, 2024, while the Easter break will be between March 29 and April 16, 2024.
Double-track SHS 3 students
Form Three students under the double track will also begin their first semester on January 3, 2024, to March 28, 2024, to end the first semester. Their second semester begins from April 17 until August 23, 2024.
However, for Form Three students under the single-track system, the first semester begins today, November 1, 2023, and ends on March 5, 2024, while the second semester is from May 3, 2024, to August 28, 2024, when they will complete school.