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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
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
The Ghanaian education system today faces inadequate financial resources (for education programs) combined with the continuous unprecedented demand for access, the legacy of colonialism, longstanding economic and social crises as challenges that present a particularly difficult reality for education in Ghana.
Overview of the current system Ghana currently operates the “2-6-3-3-4’ education system structured along three progressive levels comprising basic education, second cycle education and tertiary education (see Table 1).
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.
Ghana 2016 National Education Assessment: Report of Findings vii Executive Summary This report presents the findings from the 2016 administration of the Ghana National Education Assessment (NEA), carried out by the National Education Assessment Unit (NEAU) within the Ghana Education Service (GES). The NEA is a biennial nationally and
