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Bolgatanga, Oct 02, GNA – The implementation of the Free Senior High School (FSHS) policy has increased enrolment from 800,000 in 2016 to 1.6 million in 2024, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed.

Speaking to stakeholders during a thank-you visit to the Upper East Region in Bolgatanga, President Akufo-Addo said the social intervention had given more opportunities to vulnerable children to access secondary education who hitherto would have been denied due to poverty.

“For a decade, before I came into office, at least 100,000 young Ghanaians were unable to access Senior High education because their parents did not have the means to send them to school, even though they had the qualification to do so.

“There were 800,000 students in SHS when I came into office in 2017, today, the figure is double, 1.6 million and this means that many more people can move on from junior high level to senior high level,” he said.

According to President Akufo-Addo, the FSHS policy had not only widened access to education at the senior high school level and tertiary education but had significantly improved the quality of education in the country.

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