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How many students have benefitted from free secondary education in Ghana?

To date 1.3 million students in Ghana have benefited from a free senior high school social intervention programme rolled out by the government in 2017. The programme, Free Senior High School (SHS), is meant to extend guaranteed access to free quality education for all children of school-going age from the basic school level to second cycle education.

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