Free SHS: About 196,000 gold track students start classes today
First year students under the Double Track Free Senior High School (Free SHS)system, who were placed on the Gold Track, will start classes today. The about 196,000 first year students expected to enroll are made up both boarding and day students. Objectives of the double-track system The objectives of the double-track system are to create room to accommodate increase in enrollment, reduce class size, increase contact hours, and increase the number of holidays. 2 Semesters in SHS 1 class The new programme creates a calendar of two semesters in a year for the SHS 1 class, containing 81 days per each semester and 41 days of vacation for a sandwich class. Vincent Ekow Assafuah, Head of Public Relations at the Ministry of Education told The Finder that the students on Green Track, which started school on September 11, 2018 went on break on Wednesday November 7, 2018 and used Thursday and Friday to pack out paving the way for the second track students to report. He explained that boar...