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Ghana Free Senior High School programme review

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2026-09-02 09:34 UTC → 2026-09-08 16:52 UTC · added removed

The Centre for Policy Scrutiny (CPS) initiated a structured review of Ghana’s Free Senior High School (Free SHS) programme as it entered its ninth year of implementation. The assessment aimed to evaluate whether the significant increase in secondary school enrolment since 2017 has been supported by sufficient infrastructure, teaching resources, and learning materials, while also examining the programme’s long-term financial sustainability. Following the review process, specific operational Operational challenges have emerged. At intensified at KNUST Senior High School in Kumasi, management has considered reducing admissions due to a severe infrastructure deficit, with students reportedly using abandoned or dilapidated structures for classes. Kumasi. Headmaster Anthony Boasiako Duodu-Antwi noted reported that the school school’s population of 4,121 students and 245 staff has received minimal infrastructural support overstretched facilities, forcing classes into abandoned or dilapidated structures. He noted that despite the surge in population. Additionally, policy analysts have raised concerns regarding enrollment, the long-term viability of school has received minimal support, receiving only one emergency dormitory project since the programme, citing policy began. Financial and structural debates continue to emerge. Policy analyst Dr. Jacob Oppong Nkansah warned that inadequate stakeholder consultation and the perceived politicization of the policy as critical threats programme could threaten its long-term viability. In response to critiques regarding funding inequality, Kwasi Kwarteng of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Team defended the policy against calls for its future. abolition. Responding to arguments from Africa Education Watch Executive Director Kofi Asare—who suggested the policy disproportionately channels resources toward secondary education at the expense of basic education—Kwarteng argued that scrapping the programme would not guarantee redirected funds would reach the basic education sector, noting a lack of built-in mechanisms to ensure such a flow.

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  1. 2026-09-08 16:52 UTC Ghana Free Senior High School programme review
  2. 2026-09-02 09:34 UTC Ghana Free Senior High School programme review

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