Parents will pay the cost of the new uniform for JHS students – GES

General News on Friday, April 12, 2019

Source: 3news.com

2019-04-12

Parents will pay the cost of the newly introduced uniform for junior high school students in the country, said the Ghana Education Service.

The uniform, unveiled Thursday by the GHG in Accra, will replace the popular brown and yellow khaki uniform used for over 30 years.

This decision is part of the new education sector reforms announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo during her State of the Nation address in February this year.

This reform will include the implementation of new programs in the next academic year in September.

At a press conference, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, General Manager of the GES, explained that the new uniform had been chosen after a wider consultation.

"The minister, in consultations, presented the government with a memorandum that was duly accepted for us to change the college uniform," he said.

Why this new uniform?

"The idea is for them [JHS pupils] to begin to see themselves as high school students; they are in lower secondary [now]he explained.

He argued that the current structure of education is such that JHS level students are part of the "elementary school" so they tend to view themselves as elementary students. The idea is to let them consider themselves psychologically as in high school.

Amankwa said that the new uniform would start from the next academic year, starting in September. The old uniform, he said, will be eliminated over time but has not given him a deadline.