2022 WASSCE results prove free SHS is yielding positivity - Akufo Addo

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Pulse-gh Dec. 4, 2022 3:56 p.m.

2022 WASSCE results prove free SHS is yielding positivity - Akufo Addo

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,” Nana Akufo-Addo said in a Facebook post after addressing the 70th Anniversary Celebration of Opoku Ware Senior High School 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.” Delivering an address at the 70th Anniversary Celebration of Opoku Ware Senior High School, on Saturday, 3rd December 2022, the President noted that the 2022 WASSCE results of the third batch of the “Akufo-Addo graduates” shows 60.39% of students recording A1-C6 in English, as opposed to 51.6% in 2016.” In Integrated Science, he noted that 62.45% recorded A1-C6 in 2022, as opposed to 48.35% in 2016, with the 2022 result being a slight regression from the 2021 pass rate of 65.70%.

“The can-do spirit that saw to the birth of the school, laced with fortitude and dignity, in the face of inevitable challenges, embodies the Ghanaian spirit that we must continue to nurture to realize our full potential as a nation.” The President called on all Ghanaians, in these difficult times, to support the fiscal measures that the Government has proposed to enable us to achieve the goal of restoring macroeconomic stability and promoting inclusive growth, whilst protecting the poor.

He said,“the Free SHS is working.” This was based on the results of the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)..

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