GES declares ‘final’ SHS/TVET students school reporting date

GES declares 'final' school reporting date for SHS/TVET students

The Ghana Education Service (GES) despite a petition from parents to extend the school reporting date for the 5th batch of Free Senior High School students has said the first-year SHS/TVET reopening remains on April 4, 2022.

The announcement of April 4, as the school reopening day, comes after parents of students who partook in the just ended BECE appealed to GES to postpone the day to enable them to prepare before they send their wards to school.

Some parents who spoke to EducationWeb last week entreated the Ministry of Education to extend the school reporting date on grounds that the Ghana Education Service delayed the release of the computer school placement.

But, the management of the Education Service in a statement dated March 31, 2022, has said the April 4, 2022 date for prospective students to report to their various second cycle schools remains as indicated on the placement form.

“Parents, teachers and students and the general public are to note that the reopening of SHS/TVET students remains April 4, 2022, as indicated on the school placement form,” the press release signed by the spokeswoman of GES stated.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) indicated that the admission processes for first-year students in all public Senior High/Technical (SHS/TVET) schools are ongoing and that parents are to send their wards to complete the process.

“All students who could not get any of their choices are advised to go through the self-placement formalities and then proceed to the schools to go through admission processes,” the Ghana Education Service (GES) said on Thursday.

It added that “parents and the public are to note that the admission process does not involve payment or collection of money. school Authorities have been cautioned to under no circumstance should they demand money for admission.”

The Ghana Education Service (GES) following President Akufo-Addo’s ban on mandatory face mask-wearing has said it will in due course communicate safety protocols to be observed in schools to the students and the general public.

“The Ghana Health Service (GHS) recommends the wearing of masks in all enclosed environments including classrooms and other areas which require large gatherings of students in the school,” the Education Service noted in the release.

We know some of you are against E-levy; come out and be counted – Minority tells NPP MPs

The Minority in Parliament has said that some New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmakers are against the proposed E-levy.

Yapei-Kusawgu Member of Parliament John Jinapor said in Parliament on Tuesday March 29 while contributing to a debate on the E-levy in Parliament on Tuesday March 29, Mr Jinapor said he is aware that some NPP lawmakers are even concerned about the hardship the E-levy will bring on their constituencies hence they do not want the policy to be approved.

“I know some of you are concerned about your constituents. Be bold and come out to be counted,” he said while opposing the E-levy.

He further accused the Akufo-Addo administration of poor performance which he said is leading the NPP to opposition.

Mr Jinapor said the performance of the Akufo-Addo government is the worst by any government in the Fourth Republic.

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah while contributing to the debate on the E-levy dismissed claims that it will kill the Mobile Money (MoMo) industry.

He noted that this same argument was made when the Communication Service Tax (CST) was introduced to the effect that it was going to kill the telecom industry.

Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday March 29, the Ofoase Ayirebi lawmaker said contrary to the fears, the telecom industry has grown even with with tax.

He said “Mr Speaker, there is a claim that has been made that it will kill the MoMo industry so don’t tax MoMo.

“This same claim was made when the Communications Service Tax was being introduced, it has never killed ] the industry. In fact the industry has grown. Mr Speaker, finallY, the poor have been taken out of it with the threshold implemented so that those who transfer less than 100 cedis a day will not pay this levy.”

Deputy Finance Minister, Abena Osei-Asare, also argued for the passage of the E-levy in Parliament on Tuesday, March 29.

She assured that revenue to be generated from the E-levy will be used in proving the needs of Ghanaians.

Speaking on the floor of the House she said the E-levy “is not MoMo tax, it is Electronic Transaction Levy.”

This was after a Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, had told Parliament that the E-levy should not be passed.

By Nana Asiedu