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The Ministry of Education, working with the Ghana Education Service in its new calendar for the lower secondary school year, has proposed November 2021 for the Basic Education Certificate exams.
GES chief executive Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, who briefed media on Monday in Accra, said JHS’s 2021 schedule will be held on a two-semester semester basis for the academic year.
He said the three JHS students will start their first semester from January to May and leave in June 2021 while the second semester will start from July to October.
Professor Opoku-Amankwa said second and first year JHS students will also start their first semesters from January to May 2021, leave in June and start the second semester from July to November 2021 to complete the academic year. .
He said there would be mid-sessions in March for the first term and in September for the second semester.
Professor Opoku-Amankwa said nursery and primary schools will have three terms for the 2021 school year.
He said the first quarters would start from January to May and end in April, with the second term starting from May to July and ending in August, while the third quarters would start from September to November 2021 and the vacation in December.
Professor Opoku-Amankwa said the government will use the first and second weeks of January to disinfect all schools and put in place the necessary safety protocols for school activities to begin.
On March 16, 2021, President Akufo-Addo ordered the closure of schools in the country due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The reopening of schools follows the progress the country has made in containing the spread of the virus.
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