Ghana: How good is primary schooling?

Ghana has made considerable progress in increasing enrolments amongst both boys and girls. The rate of progress has been sufficient to achieve universal primary education (UPE) by 2015, and hence gender equality at primary level. However, reaching this goal cannot be taken for granted, since there are still a large number of disadvantaged schools in poorer areas - shown by the fact that nearly one in five of primary graduates are illiterate. Achieving the targets will require increased focus on schools in remote areas and help for those schools that need it.