Free Senior High School Policy in Ghana Implementation and Outcomes against Policy Purposes

The -‘pro poor' free senior high school SHS policy has become a major rights based social democratic initiative in Ghana. The policy attracts major criticisms and praises from academics and citizens. This paper broaches the policy's outcomes and implementation inputs to its purposes in real time. The study uses secondary data from the official websites of Ghana's presidency, the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service Education Management Information System GES EMIS , and the Ghana Living Standards GLSS 7 Report. The study employs Critical Discourse Analysis CDA with Ball's policy as -‘text' and' discourse' approaches and document analysis. The policy achieved a higher enrolment in location and gender improvements in students' academic outcomes a pupil to teacher ratio of 20 1, and reduced household burden. Other challenges are delays in funding and distribution of policy inputs. The study suggests that funding mechanisms should be widened, deepen policy education for school leaders and parents to enhance policy progress. David Kyei-Nuamah | Andrews Larbi "Free Senior High School Policy in Ghana: Implementation and Outcomes against Policy Purposes" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-6 , October 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52028.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/52028/free-senior-high-school-policy-in-ghana-implementation-and-outcomes-against-policy-purposes/david-kyeinuamah