Background

The Free Senior High School policy (Free SHS) introduced by President Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in September 2017 is so far delivering results by improving access to education, as contained in some statistical reports. In 2016, the country's gross enrolment ratio (GER) at the upper secondary level, according to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), stood at 51%.