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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.
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
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.
Access to education has social and economic benefit to both the individual and wider society. Any effort to improve health, nutrition, agriculture, industry, commerce and environmental conditions in Ghana has to enhance equitable access to both basic and post-basic education.
This monograph examines the history and politics of educational reform in Ghana, focusing on the issue of access to basic education in the post-colonial period. The monograph employs data from a series of interviews conducted with senior policy-makers, implementers and
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).
