President, Nana Akufo-Addo is mocking critics of his government’s signature free senior high school (SHS) policy, saying, “they have eggs in their faces now”.
“There were some, who described free SHS as a waste. Some said it will destroy our ivy league schools and some indicated that the policy was going to compromise the quality of senior high school education.
None of these has happened, and I am sure that they have eggs in their faces now.”
He was speaking at the 70thanniversary celebration of the Tamale Senior High School.
This comes in the heels of the recently released WASSCE results of the pioneer students of the double-track calendar. More of the pioneer students of the double-track school calendar introduced in year 2018, who sat for the WASSCE have qualified for tertiary education.
The system allowed large numbers of students to have access to senior high school, but this did affect the quality of teaching and learning.
Provisional results released by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) show that there were improvements in the performance of the candidates in grade A1 to C6 in Integrated Science and Social Studies compared with the 2020 results.
There was however, a slight decline, regarding English Language and Mathematics (core).
Two hundred and thirty-eight thousand, eight hundred and nineteen (238,819) candidates, who wrote the 2021 examination, representing 54.08 per cent, scored between the grades of A1 and C6, in the English Language.
For Mathematics, 238,539 candidates scored between A1 and C6, and this represents 54.11 per cent and for Integrated Science, 289,329 candidates, representing 65.70 per cent, scored between A1 and C6.
Two hundred and ninety thousand, five hundred and forty-five (290,545) passed Social Studies, scoring between grades A1 and C6, representing 66.03 per cent.
In the previous year’s WASSCE (2020), 52.53 per cent of the candidates scored between grade A1 and C6 in Integrated Science, that of Social Studies was 64.31 per cent scored between A1 and C6.
For English Language, 57.34 per cent of the candidates scored between A1 and C6, while in Mathematics (Core), 65.71 per cent of them scored between A1 and C6.
President Nana Akufo-Addo said he was proud of the performance of the free SHS beneficiaries.
He said the results of the beneficiaries in the WASSCE justifies the government’s decision to introduce the policy intervention and has at the same time shamed its critics.
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