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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.
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
The National Education Assessment (NEA) is an indicator of Ghana’s education quality at the basic level. The minimum level of competency on the test implies achieving a score of 35%. The score required to achieve proficiency is 55%.
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
Following the literature review, a framework was developed of potential factors likely to have an impact on basic education learning outcomes in Ghana (Figure 4). This framework was used to structure the national interviews and fieldwork questions.
Enrollment in basic education has made significant progress in Ghana but learning achievements appear to have stagnated. This four month project was designed to combine achievement and school resource information into a single data base and assess the degree to which particular resources were associated with better performance.
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).