School Calendar: KG to JHS reverts to trimester system

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The Ministry of Education has directed Kindergarten to Junior High Schools to revert to the Trimester system school calendar for the current academic year, instead of the proposed Semester system.

Consequently, new dates have been announced for the various school terms for Kindergarten to Junior High Schools as follows:

DATEDURATIONVACATION
1st Term18th January - 14th April12 weeks15th April - 9th May
2nd Term10th May - 18th August14 weeks19th August - 12th September
3rd Term13th September - 22nd December14 weeks

A statement issued by the Ministry of Education said the reversion to the trimester system follows representation from a section of the public and key educational stakeholders to re-instate the trimester system, as well as further consultation on the issue.

Earlier, a meeting between the GES, and the leadership of some teacher unions, namely,  GNAT, NAGRAT,  CCT, and TEWU over the implementation of the semester-based academic calendar for public pre-tertiary schools has ended inconclusively.


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