There has been a summary of the new educational reforms outlined by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Ghana Education Service (GES), and National council for Curriculum Assessment.



These projects aim to completely transform Ghana's educational system from pre-kindergarten through senior high school, both in terms of structure, standardization, and new curricula, in order to achieve the highest level of educational excellence that the nation aspires to.

 

These new reforms are stated above categorically;

 

  1. Kindergarten, primary school, JHS, and SHS shall all be described as basic school. JHS 1, 2, 3 and SHS 1 shall now be referred to as BS 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively i. e. SHS 1 shall now be called BS 10.

 

  1. All students in JHS 1 - SHS 1 shall run a common core programme called CCP which comprises 9 subjects namely; Mathematics. Languages, Science, RME (stand-alone subject), Physical Education and Health Education (not examinable), Career Technology, Social Studies, Computing and Creative Art and Design.
  1. A new examination called National Standard Assessment Test (NSAT) shall be conducted at Primary 2, 4, 6, and JHS 2.

 

  1. BECE shall be replaced by placement exams at JHS 3 to enroll students into SHS 1.

 

  1. Students in SHS 1 shall continue to run the common core programme for one year thus students into SHS 1 shall not select Science, Business or Arts Programmes.

 

  1. At the end of SHS 1, students shall write a Common Core Exams into SHS 2.

 

  1. At SHS 2, students will now have to select either a career related programme which includes vocational and technical programmes or a school or a high school Diploma programme such as Science, business, and arts.

 

 

  1. This means Elective subjects shall start in SHS 2.

 

  1. WASSCE will be replaced by a university entrance exam at SHS 3.

 

  1. Students after successful completion of SHS 3 will be awarded a Diploma Certificate instead of WASSCE certificate.    

 

These are the new developments that Ghanaian students and parents can anticipate in the calendar for the educational sector in the upcoming months.