Accra: Stakeholders in quality education delivery in the country have lauded the move by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reverse the educational system to the former schedules. This, they said, would ensure stability in learning, planning, and progression for all affected.
According to Ghana News Agency, the introduction of double track, coupled with school calendar changes, hitherto created lots of tension and upheavals for stakeholders. The announcement by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reverse the trend, according to Mr. Reginald Kwesi, a parent, was a proactive step by the government to bring sanity to the education sector. He said education is a critical tool for development that must be well harnessed through proper planning, coordination, and infrastructure to produce well-resourced human materials for nation building. Mr. Kwesi therefore urged the government to also concentrate on retooling schools, particularly in rural areas, for the common good of all.
Mr. Kofi Mensah, a teacher, expressed relief, stating, “we will now have to rest our minds and churn out quality materials for lesson notes and also have time to deliver systemically.” Nana Banyin Amissah, an opinion leader in the Nkenya community, emphasized that successive governments must “stop poking and stalking the education sector and rather allow the technocratic and experts in the sector to plan.” He also called on the GES to strengthen the baseline prospectus for students to save the purse of parents.
Madam Lydia Assifuah, a mother, stressed that the GES must ensure that students could use textbooks of their siblings like in the 1990s. She said, “when we were in school, our storybooks were passed on to other classes and siblings, but now every year, parents would have to look for monies to buy new textbooks, why?”
The GES has officially released the academic calendar for the upcoming 2025/2026 academic year, providing a clear roadmap for Kindergarten (KG), Primary, and Junior High Schools (JHS) across the nation. The first term of the 2025/2026 academic year is set to commence on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, and conclude on Thursday, December 18, 2025. Students and teachers would then enjoy a Christmas vacation from Friday, December 19, 2025, to Tuesday, January 7, 2026. A mid-term break is also scheduled for October 31 to November 3, 2025, offering a brief respite during the demanding term.
The second term picks up on Wednesday, January 8, 2026, running until Wednesday, April 1, 2026. This would be followed by an Easter vacation from April 2 to April 20, 2026, with the third and final term of the academic year slated to begin on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, and would officially end on Thursday, July 23, 2026. The pivotal examination, which marks the completion of junior high school and serves as the gateway to senior high schools and technical institutes in Ghana, has been set to take place from Monday, May 4 to Monday, May 11, 2026.