The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released a unified prospectus for day and boarding students in senior high and technical schools across the country. Most of the items listed are intended for the personal use of students, while others are meant for the schools themselves.
For boarding students, the required items include: a hard-body suitcase or trunk, a chop box (either wooden or plastic), one drinking cup (plastic or stainless steel), a plate, and a set of cutlery. Additionally, students are expected to bring toiletries, which consist of one deodorant, one pack of toilet paper, toothpaste, a toothbrush, soap, pomade, and for female students, two packs of sanitary pads.
Others
Students are required to have the following items:
- Decent sandals (specific to the school)
- A pair of leather slippers (specific to the school)
- Decent sneakers (black or white)
- Two pairs of socks (specific to the school)
- One set of pajamas or sleepwear
- Underwear:
- For girls: five pairs of pants and three vests
- For boys: three pairs of boxer shorts or pants and three singlets
- One plastic bucket with a cover and a pail
- TSV/NIV Bible or Quran, and a hymn book for Christian students (specific to the school)
- Pillow covered with Mackintosh
- Two bedsheets for students, along with two plain white pillowcases
- One blanket and sleeping cloth
- One pair of white trousers (or school-specific)
- White dress for ladies
- Two white shirts (one short-sleeved and one long-sleeved)
- Student-sized mosquito net
- One school bag
- One mathematical set and one scientific calculator
- Two checked dresses (where applicable)
- A student mattress (if not provided by the school)
- Shoes (specific to the school colour)
- Belt (specific to the school)
- One hoe or machete
Please ensure that all items are labelled with the student’s name for identification.
Groups
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 of 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.
Day students
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 of 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.
Source: Emmanuel Bonney
