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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
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
COUNTRY POLICY BRIEF. MARCH 2008. EDUCATIONAL ACCESS IN GHANA. This Policy Brief describes and explains patterns of access to schools in Ghana. It outlines policy and legislation on access to education and provides an analysis of access, vulnerability and exclusion.
