{"id":12831,"date":"2025-08-24T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12831"},"modified":"2025-08-24T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:43:17","slug":"single-track-system-not-fully-restored-ges-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12831","title":{"rendered":"Single-track system not fully restored \u2013 GES clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Education Service (GES) has clarified that the 2025\/2026 academic calendar has not fully reverted to the single-track system, countering reports in some media outlets suggesting otherwise.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"583\">In a statement on its official Facebook page, the GES explained that the upcoming academic year accommodates both single-track and double-track schools, as explicitly outlined in the calendar released last week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"739\">\u201cThe 2025\/2026 academic year officially begins on Saturday, 18th October 2025, when all first-year students are expected to report,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"739\">Per the schedule, the academic year will end on 21st August 2026 for single-track schools, while double-track schools will close on 4th September 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"739\">Daniel Fenyi, the Public Relations Officer of GES, emphasised that the clarification aims to ensure transparent and accurate communication to students, parents, and the wider public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Education Service (GES) has clarified that the 2025\/2026 academic calendar has not fully reverted to the single-track system, countering reports in some media outlets suggesting otherwise. In a statement on its official Facebook page, the GES explained that the upcoming academic year accommodates both single-track and double-track schools, as explicitly outlined in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":12832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,41,3507],"tags":[3871,204,3759,3942],"class_list":["post-12831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general-news","category-national","tag-education","tag-ges","tag-ghana-news","tag-shs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12833,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12831\/revisions\/12833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}