More recently, the government commitment • Completion by wealth also continues to be an issue, to dropping schools’ fees for senior high school 27% of the poorest quintile compared to 76% of the saw 90,000 more students at the start of the 2017 richest complete lower-secondary education.7 academic year. [...] 48% of the richest urban males in Ghana leave lower secondary school having learned the basics in mathematics, only 7% of the poorest rural girls do.9 This SDG target 4.c commits substantially increasing Figure 2: Ghana share of GDP to education, the supply of qualified teacher, because “teachers 2012-2018 are a fundamental condition for guaranteeing quality education”.10 The UN recommends a pupil. [...] Ghana quality and equity targets to be met… has been close to the upper end of these benchmarks for over the last few years (see Figure 1 and 2).14 Is the spending fair or equitable? However while the share of budget has been, somewhat, • Government spending on education has been maintained - a measure of government commitments in shown to be progressive in Ghana, due to a high tough fiscal times. [...] Increasing the SHARE of the budget allocated to education, by continuing to exceed the UNESCO’s benchmarks of 20% of national budget and/or 6% of GDP. [...] Increasing the SIZE of the overall budget, maximizing the availability of resources for investment in public education by: • Mitigating the effect of macro-economic policies that limit the amounts available for public spending (e.g.
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