General News of Friday, 12 April 2019Source: 3news.comParents will pay for cost of new uniform for JHS pupils – GESThe uniform will replace the popular old brown and khaki which have been in the system over 30 yearsParents will pay for the cost of the newly introduced school uniform for Junior High School pupils in the country, the Ghana Education Service has said. The uniform, unveiled by the GES in Accra Thursday, will replace the popular brown and yellow khaki uniform which has been used for over 30 years now. “The minister through consultations, presented a memo to cabinet which was duly accepted for us to change the junior high school uniform,” he said. “The idea is for them [JHS pupils] to start seeing themselves as secondary school students; they are in lower secondary [now]” he explained. He argued that the current education structure is such that pupils in the JHS level are part of primary school “so they tend to see themselves as primary school students.

Source: GhanaWeb April 12, 2019 04:07 UTC