Afenyo-Markin demands urgent national dialogue over Ghana’s education challenges

Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin is calling for an urgent national conversation on Ghana’s education system, citing recent WASSCE and BECE outcomes as evidence of challenges that could affect thousands of young people.

The Minority Leader warned that, based on the figures he cited, more than 200,000 young Ghanaians could be at risk of being left behind at different stages of the secondary education system.

Defence of previous NPP policies The Minority Leader also defended education policies introduced under the previous NPP administration, including the expansion of Free Senior High School (Free SHS), Free TVET, apprenticeship and skills-development opportunities.