Over 500,000 students have been enrolled in senior high schools this year, according to the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum.
He claimed that the introduction of the “Free SHS” had significantly increased the numbers.
Dr. Yaw Adutwum stated that the free SHS policy has created numerous opportunities for kids to pursue secondary education during his speech at the 2022 Presidential BECE awards in Accra.
“The Free SHS programme has sent many students to various high schools in the country. When it started in 2017, there were 830,000 students enrolled in high schools across the country.”
“This year alone, we have a record 500,000 students placed in senior high schools across the country, and we are waiting forward for them to enroll. That tells you the progress we have made these past few years.”
In a previous interview, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo praised the effects of the Free SHS policy on the nation.
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“The 2022 results are the best of the last 8 years. Surely there can be no longer any controversy about the validity of the free SHS policy and its consequential measures, it is working and working well”.
After speaking at Opoku Ware Senior High School’s 70th anniversary celebration, Nana Akufo-Addo stated in a Facebook post.
According to President Akufo-Addo, “six (6) years on following the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy, which has guaranteed a minimum of Senior High School education for 1.7 million Ghanaian children, the highest such enrolment in our history, I can state, without equivocation, that I am very proud of the policy and its results thus far.”
The President noted in a speech at Opoku Ware Senior High School’s 70th anniversary celebration on Saturday, December 3, 2022 that the third batch of “Akufo-Addo graduates”‘ 2022 WASSCE results showed 60.39% of students recording A1-C6 in English, as opposed to 51.6% in other subjects.
