Ghana Education Service Releases Harmonised Prospectus for 2025 SHS First-Years

• The Ghana Education Service released the 2025 harmonised prospectus for students starting Senior High School
• The service has warned schools that they are prohibited from requesting additional items from students
• The prospectus is divided into categories, with basic school supplies and cleaning equipment for students

The Ghana Education Service released the 2025 harmonised prospectus for Senior High Schools and Technical Institutions nationwide ahead of the new academic year.

Public schools are required to strictly adhere to this standard list.

Adom News reported that schools were warned that they are prohibited from requesting additional items.

Parents are expected to be preparing for the academic year as the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) assigns their wards to schools.

The prospectus is divided into categories, starting with Category A, which has 27 basic items like trunks and toiletries.

Category B has cleaning supplies, divided into three sub-groups, with students required to provide items like brooms, buckets.

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Why does the GES have a harmonised prospectus?

The service introduced a harmonised prospectus to clamp down on the unauthorised sale of school items because of the Free SHS policy.

This led to the introduction of a harmonised prospectus for Senior High School students to ensure schools do not ask students to bring extra items.

The national prospectus is categorised into basic needs and cleaning materials to make it easier for parents to identify required items.

Over the years, the Ghana Education Service has interdicted headteachers of Senior High Schools for collecting unauthorised monies from students.

Current challenges with SHS placement

Though the prospectus has arrived, parents and guardians are likely to be concerned with the placement of their wards.

Joy News reported that thousands of parents and students travelled to various resolution centres following the release of the 2025 Senior High School (SHS) placement results.

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Reports indicated that 107,509 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates, representing 18.2% of all qualified students, were not automatically placed into any of their chosen schools.

Under the new guidelines outlined by the Ghana Education Service, candidates were expected to select five schools of their choice and two others, making seven in total.

As part of the selection, candidates are expected to select one school from category A, not more than two schools from category B. However, candidates can select all five schools from category C.

Candidates interested in TVET education are required to select all five choices in TVET schools, but in the same order of one from category A, not more than two from category B, or all five schools from category C.

Out of the five schools, a candidate is expected to select three of them as boarding and two of them as day schools.

GES to revert double-track SHSs to single-track

YEN.com.gh reported that the Ghana Education Service will start reverting Senior High Schools from the double-track to the single-track system in the 2025/2026 academic year.

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Starting in October 2025, approximately 99 double-track schools will transition back to the traditional single-track system.

The new policy will allow students to have a more traditional and uninterrupted academic calendar.

Proofreading by Samuel Gitonga, copy editor at YEN.com.gh.

Source: YEN.com.gh