National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has indicated plans to demand from the education management body, a review of class size to address the issue of overcrowding following the implementation of the government’s free Senior High School policy.
According to Vice President of NAGRAT, Angel Gabriel Karbonu, the current situation where some classrooms had over 50 students was unproductive.
At least over 400,000 JHS graduates benefited from the policy following their performance in the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
But some senior high schools are said to be losing their balance two months after the take-off of the free SHS policy, which has resulted in outstretched existing facilities.
Some of the schools are struggling to contain the situation as a result of either poor or unavailability of adequate infrastructure.
Undoubtedly, the introduction of the policy means that 100,000 more of qualified BECE candidates have been enrolled in senior high schools across the country.
According to the NAGRAT vice president, the association will soon make a demand of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to strictly cut class size to a maximum of 30 students for effective teaching and learning as well as supervision.
“We will need to bring our class sizes to the internationally accepted standard,” he stated.
Story: Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu