The School Reopening Committee established to deliberate on modalities for the reopening of schools will present a recommendation to the government on September 21, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, the Director-General, Ghana Education Service (GES) announced.

The recommendation, Prof Opoku-Amankwa said would be submitted to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to make the final decision on the reopening of schools in the pre-tertiary sub-sector.

The Director-General announced on Friday in his opening remarks during a workshop on the GES Secondary Education Improvement Project in Larteh-Akuapem in the Eastern region.

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Touching on the government’s initiative to give one hot meal a day to final year Junior High School (JHS) students, Prof Opoku-Amankwa said a committee headed by Mrs Frema Opare, the Chief of Staff was constituted to ensure effective implementation of the programme.

The Committee, according to him, was expected to come out with a comprehensive programme of action to ensure effective monitoring of the feeding initiative.

Prof Opoku-Amankwa said Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Education on Thursday, August 20, inaugurated a 10-member committee chaired by Prof Dominic Fobih, a former Minister of Education and currently the chairman of the GETFund Board of Trustees and representatives from the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service, UNICEF, private school sector and parents.