Dr. Peter Partey Anti, the Executive Secretary of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST-Ghana), has urged the Ministry of Education to suspend the idea of changing public school uniforms and rather focus on tackling infrastructural challenges being faced by many public schools across the country.

Dr. Anti opined that, many public schools across the country are facing with a plethora of infrastructure challenges, ranging from school buildings, to desks, and offices for staffs.

The minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adu-Twum in a recent 'The Free SHS story' forum held in Accra on Thursday, April 25, disclosed the ministry’s intention on changing the yellow and brown uniforms worn by public schools.

Dr. Yaw Osei Adu-Twum said, "we are changing the uniforms of public basic schools in the country. The yellow and brown that you see now, you will see no more. Reformation is coming to a community near you, and you will see it."

He hinted, “We are switching to blue and white. We are painting all the schools to give it an attractive outlook. This is the transformation Ghana deserves and it is coming.”

According to the Education Minister, the facelift of the public schools will boost the confidence of the students which in will return, make them develop great innovative minds.

However, Dr. Anti shared a different view stating that the idea of changing of uniforms, should not be an issue for the government at the moment due to the many pressing needs being faced by Ghana’s education sector.

Speaking on TV3’s Ghana Tonight, monitored by Peacefmonline.com said, "It’s not an issue we should even be thinking about right now, we have pressing needs in our basic school system. Policies in the education sector aren’t for a selected few but for the whole nation. The government needs to sit up."

According to Dr. Anti, Ghana’s basic schools system have deteriorated adding that most of the schools have infrastructural deficiencies with no access to internet connectivity, electricity and other vital amenities needed to have quality education.

The last time government changed school uniforms in the country was in 2019/2020 academic year.

In an effort to achieve universal primary education, the government, as part of its educational policy, initiated free school uniform distribution throughout the country in 2010, for Junior High Schools.

According to a recent government data, a total of 170,221 pupils were supplied with free school uniforms in 2013 and it planned to supply 10,000 uniforms in 2014.