#YouAsked Education How many students have benefitted from free secondary education in Ghana? Source Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy 2020 Short answer How many students have benefitted from free secondary education in Ghana? To date some 1,199,750 Senior High School 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 o... Back Full answer
Health Education Where does Ghana rank based on the human capital the average child can expect to achieve? Source World Bank Human Capital Index Short answer Where does Ghana rank based on the human capital the average child can expect to achieve? The World Bank’s Human Capital Index measures “the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one. An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a v... Back Full answer
Education How many pupils in Ghana qualified to write the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in 2020? Source West African Examinations Council Short answer How many pupils in Ghana qualified to write the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in 2020? In 2020, there were 375,737 candidates for the exam, which is for selection to tertiary institutions. Five years earlier, in 2016, there were 274,263 candidates. ... Back Full answer