Speaking at the 2022 Presidential BECE award in Accra, Dr. Yaw Adutwum said the free SHS policy has opened many opportunities for children to get secondary education.
“The Free SHS program 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 secondary schools across the country, and we are waiting for them to enroll. This shows the progress we have made in the past few years.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an old interview praised the impact of the Free SHS policy in the country.
“The 2022 result is the best in the last 8 years. There should be no more controversy about the validity of the free SHS policy and its consequential measures, it works and works well”.
Nana Akufo-Addo said this in a Facebook post after his 70th Anniversary address at Opoku Ware Senior High School.
According to President Akufo-Addo, “six (6) years after the implementation of the Free Senior Secondary School policy, which guaranteed a minimum high school education for 1.7 million Ghanaian children, the highest in our history. I can say, without equivocation, that I am very proud of policies and results to date.
Delivering a speech at Opoku Ware High School’s 70th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, December 3, 2022, the President noted that the 2022 WASSCE results of the third batch of “Akufo-Addo graduates” showed 60.39% of students recorded A1- C6 in English, as opposed to 51.6 % in 2016.