The Ghana Education Service (GES) has indicated that the academic calendar for Senior High School students will be restored to the pre-COVID era by 2024.
This will enable WASSCE candidates complete their final exam between May and June, instead of the August-September calendar which is currently being run.
“Though Ghanaian candidates are the only group to sit for exams during this period, they will join their other counterparts in West Africa by 2024,†Director-General of the Service, Prof. Kwasi OpokuAmankwa assured in an interview with Citi News.
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, academic work for most schools was distorted. This was due to the lockdown and other measures instituted to curtail the spread of the pandemic.
As a result, the academic calendar was reviewed such that WASSCE candidates who previously wrote their final exam between May and June ended up taking the exam between August and September.
However, the four neigbouring West African Countries – Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Gambia – who also partake in the exam have returned to the May/June calender, leaving only Ghanaian candidates to write the exam between August and September.