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The 2020 MICS-EAGLE Ghana Education Fact Sheets were jointly developed by: Agnes Arthur, Sakshi Mishra and Mayeso Zenengeya, with inputs from the Education and Monitoring and Evaluation teams of the UNICEF Ghana Country Office; Kokou Sefako Amelewonou and Yacouba Djibo Abdou of UNICEF’s West and Central Africa Regional
Basic Education: Pre-school, Primary classes 1-6, and Junior High School forms 1-3 comprise basic education in Ghana, which is compulsory. The sole official language of instruction throughout the Ghanaian educational system is English.
Duration of basic education : 11 years Ages of children: 4-15 years Net primary school enrolment rates: 84.4% Rank in basic education: 1st out of 16 countries in West Africa according to Fitch (2022) Literacy rate: 69.8%, which is the second highest in Africa, with the regional average being 47% (2021), according to the United
CREATE conceives of access to basic education in four zones of exclusion – children who never attend, children who enroll in primary school but drop out before completion, children in school but attending irregularly and learning little, and children who fail to transit to lower secondary school.
The 6 years of primary school together with 3 years of junior secondary school were consolidated into a uniform and continuous 9-year basic education, understood to be compulsory and free for every Ghanaian child of school-going age.
download Download free PDF. View PDF chevron_right. Improving Quality Basic Education in Ghana : Prospects and Challenges of the School Performance Improvement Plan. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah. Ghana has undergone significant and ambitious educational reforms in her post-colonial period.
The plan contains seven subsectoral goals, activities and targets, encompassing basic education, secondary education, TVET, non-formal education, inclusive and special education, tertiary education, and education management and finance.
