Head of Public Relations Unit at the Ghana Education Service (GES), Cassandra Twum Ampofo has revealed that the institution is in the process of harmonizing schools code of conduct that will apply to all Senior Secondary Schools in Ghana.

According to her, in every academic institution, there are a certain rules and regulations that are to be abided by all students but these code of conduct may differ in each school and sanctions to certain crimes may also differ.

This is why she said there is the need to bring all these codes of conduct together, so that an official set of rules will be released that will apply to everyone and make things easier when sanctions are being meted out to culprits who violate these rules.

“When we talk of the Senior High Schools, what we have a slight challenge with is the fact that we do not have a general comprehensive code of conduct.”

“We’re harmonizing all the schools code of conduct so that we don’t have individual schools code of conduct, that you’ll pick School A’s code of conduct and probably the offenses and sanctions would be different from School B.”

“We want to harmonize all of them and have one so that when you go to all our Secondary schools there’s that common code of conduct that all of the schools will be using,” she explained.

Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, she said that GES is already done with the general set of rules and is yet to present it before Council to be reviewed and validated before it is officially approved and released.

“As I speak to you we’re done with the comprehensive one and on Thursday God willing, we’re laying before Council the new comprehensive code of conduct so that Council will look at it, review, validate and give us the approval,” she disclosed.

Madam Cassandra said this following the emergence of a disturbing video showing an act of violence involving two students of Adisadel College, Cape Coast.

The viral video shows a student holding another from the back in an elbow lock, slamming his head on a frame of a bunk bed in the dormitory and causing an immediate swell on his right cheek with blood oozing out. 

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has since taken immediate action with regards to this disheartening matter.

The GES views acts of violence in schools as utterly unacceptable and detrimental to the overall well-being of students, thus, is resolute in its commitment to maintaining a safe and secure learning environment for all students across the nation.

Meanwhile, in response to the incident, the school’s authorities have suspended the alleged perpetrator pending further investigation.