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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released a harmonised prospectus for day and boarders in senior high and technical schools in the country.
The majority of the items are for the personal use of students, with others going to the school.
The items for boarding students include a hard body suit case or trunk, a chop box (wooden or plastic), a drinking cup (1 plastic or stainless), a plate and a set of cutlery, toiletries (one deodorant, one pack toilet roll, toothpaste, tooth brush, soap, pomade and two packs of sanitary pads for girls.
Others are decent sandals (school specific), a pair of leather slippers (school specific), decent sneakers (black or white), two pair of socks (school specific), one pyjamas/sleep wear, underwear (five pants and three vests for girls, three boxer shorts or pants and three singlets for boys), one plastic bucket with cover and pail, TSV/NIV Bible or Quran and hymn book for Christian (school specific).
The rest are pillow covered with Mackintosh, two students’ bedsheets, with two pillow cases – plain white, one blanket and sleeping cloth, a pair of white trousers (or school specific), white dress for ladies, two white shirts (one short sleeve and one long sleeve), students size mosquito net, one school bag, one Mathematical set and sciencetific calculator, two checked dresses (where applicable), student mattress (where not available in the school), shoes (school specific colour), belt (school specific) and one hoe or machete.
On items for the school, students have been required to buy items from any one of the following groups:
In group one, the items are a pair of hand gloves (hard), a liquid soap (five litres) and one kilogramme washing powder.
In the other group, the items are one bleach (small size), one dust pan, one long-hand broom and a scrubbing brush.
The last group contains one standing mop and mop bucket, a duster and a short local broom.
In the case of day students, they are to take to school one Mathematical set and a scientific calculator, decent sandals (school-specific with no embellishment), decent sneakers (black or white) and one school bag.
They are also to buy items from the following groups: The first group includes a pair of hand gloves (hard), liquid soap (five litres) and one kilogramme washing powder.
The other group comprised one bleech (small size), one dust pan, one long handle broom, one scrubbing brush and the last group comprising a standing mop and mop bucket, one duster and one short local broom.
All the personal items must be embossed or embroidered with a student’s name.
Earlier, the Public Relations Officer of the GES, Daniel Fenyi, indicated that the harmonised prospectus was to guide parents and guardians in purchasing items with their children and wards.
The discussions on the prospectus, he said, were being held with the heads of schools, other stakeholders and teachers and parents.
“We always want our policies and programmes to be consultative enough so that by the time it comes out, it would have reflected the aspirations of all the stakeholders and parties involved,” he said.
The GES had said that up to 483,800 candidates who sat the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been successfully placed into Senior High Schools (SHSs), Senior High Technical Schools (SHTS) and Technical and Vocational Institutions (TVIs).
The number represents 82 per cent of the 590,309 candidates who qualify for placement out of the 603,328 students who took the examination this year.
Currently, 248,038 of the figure are females, representing 51.4 per cent of students already placed.
