Double-track system to be phased out by 2027 – GES PRO

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that the double-track system currently operating in some senior high schools across the country is expected to be completely phased out by the end of 2027.

The Head of Public Relations at GES, Daniel Fenyi, disclosed this while speaking on Oyerepa Radio, where he outlined the roadmap being implemented to gradually return all affected schools to the single-track system.

According to him, the Service has set 2027 as its target year, noting that significant progress has already been made in addressing the infrastructural challenges that necessitated the introduction of the double-track policy.

“Our goal is that by 2027, the double-track system would have ended,” he stated.

Mr. Fenyi explained that data collected from about 100 schools revealed that many of them do not require major infrastructure expansion but are constrained mainly by the lack of basic furniture.

“From the data we have gathered, about 100 of these schools only need tables and chairs, and we are currently making provision for those items,” he said.

He added that once the furniture is supplied, those schools would be able to exit the double-track system as early as the next academic year.

“Because we will be providing them with tables and chairs by the next academic year, they should be able to move out of the double-track system,” he explained.

However, Mr. Fenyi acknowledged that the situation in some schools is more complex, stressing that the challenges could not be resolved within a single academic year.

“The problem was quite deep, and we could not use only one academic year to remove them from the system,” he noted.

He revealed that in certain schools, entirely new classroom blocks had to be constructed before they could return to the single-track system.

“In some of these schools, we realised that we had to build classroom blocks from scratch before they could move away from the double-track system,” he added.

Mr. Fenyi assured that GES is systematically addressing all identified challenges and rolling out solutions in phases, with the aim of ensuring that all schools fully transition out of the double-track system by the end of 2027.