Student Life In Ghana: Graduates who wish to further advance their education will move into the 3-year senior secondary program. Most of the senior secondary schools in Ghana provide boarding facilities, which most of their students use. These universities may offer courses such as General arts, General science, Visual arts and etc. At the end of the three-year senior secondary Program it is mandatory for students to write an exam called West African Senior Secondary Certificate Exam (WASSCE). In order to enroll into these universities an examination is required followed by the completion of senior secondary school.
School enrollment totals almost 2 million: 1.3 million primary; 107,600 middle; 48,900 secondary; 21,280 technical; 11,300 teacher training; and 5,600 university. With over 98% of its children in school, Ghana currently has the second highest school enrolment rate in all of Africa. Ghanaian children begin their education at the age of three or four starting from nursery school to kindergarten, then elementary school (primary school), high school (junior high school and senior high school) and finally university.
The average age at which a Ghanaian child enters primary school is 6 years. Ghana’s grading system is different at every point in education. From above, through the pre-school to the junior high, every grade a student gains is written in terms of numbers instead of alphabets, which is commonly known worldwide. This system does not follow the common way of grading, there are no 1+’s or 6+’s as a grade, unlike letter grades which use the system of pluses and minuses.
