The Education Minister-designate Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh has said President Akufo-Addo is yet to take a decision for a reversal of the three-year senior high school system to a four-year one.

“I think His Excellency must decide based upon expert advice and opinion whether we go back to three or four years, I don’t see a specific manifesto promise on that but we govern with expert opinion and expert advice and look and sense the political temperature for His Excellency to decide,” he said.

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He, however, indicated that “if he [Nana Addo] so comes to that decision and I am confirmed as the Minister [of Education], I’ll see to the prosecution, in the house, of a four-year SHS but that decision has not been made.”

The four-year senior high school programme began in 2007 under the former President John Kufuor’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.

The system, however, lasted three academic years as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) assumed power in 2009 and reverted to the three-year system.

When asked if he thought it was advisable for politicians to be taking such decisions which impinge the lives of students, the Manhyia South MP said: “Our lives are left in the hands of politicians insofar as governance is concerned and we have chosen that as a nation.”

“It’s not every expert advice that politicians would have to follow verbatim, we look also [at] more than their expert opinion and we have to accept that in the democratic space, the ultimate decision makers are the political heads,” he added.