Ghana comes last in biggest global school rankings

Profesor Jane Opoku-AgyemangGhana has been ranked last among 76 countries in the biggest global school ranking conducted by the OECD economic think tank.

Many other African countries also showed at the bottom of the report.

Asian countries were the biggest earners with Singapore topping the group followed by Hong Kong.

The UK is in 20th place, among higher achieving European countries, with the US in 28th.

The OECD economic think tank says the comparisons – based on test scores in 76 countries – show the link between education and economic growth.

“This is the first time we have a truly global scale of the quality of education,” said the OECD’s education director, Andreas Schleicher.

“The idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world’s education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long-term economic gains from improved quality in schooling could be for them,” he told the media.

Below is the table of how the various countries fared in the survey

  1. Singapore

  2. Hong Kong

  3. South Korea

  4. Japan (joint)

  5. Taiwan (joint)

  6. Finland

  7. Estonia

  8. Switzerland

  9. Netherlands

  10. Canada

  11. Poland

  12. Vietnam

  13. Germany

  14. Australia

  15. Ireland

  16. Belgium

  17. New Zealand

  18. Slovenia

  19. Austria

  20. United Kingdom

  21. Czech Republic

  22. Denmark

  23. France

  24. Latvia

  25. Norway

  26. Luxembourg

  27. Spain

  28. Italy (joint)

  29. United States (joint)

  30. Portugal

  31. Lithuania

  32. Hungary

  33. Iceland

  34. Russia

  35. Sweden

  36. Croatia

  37. Slovak Republic

  38. Ukraine

  39. Israel

  40. Greece

  41. Turkey

  42. Serbia

  43. Bulgaria

  44. Romania

  45. UAE

  46. Cyprus

  47. Thailand

  48. Chile

  49. Kazakhstan

  50. Armenia

  51. Iran

  52. Malaysia

  53. Costa Rica

  54. Mexico

  55. Uruguay

  56. Montenegro

  57. Bahrain

  58. Lebanon

  59. Georgia

  60. Brazil

  61. Jordan

  62. Argentina

  63. Albania

  64. Tunisia

  65. Macedonia

  66. Saudi Arabia

  67. Colombia

  68. Qatar

  69. Indonesia

  70. Botswana

  71. Peru

  72. Oman

  73. Morocco

  74. Honduras

  75. South Africa

  76. Ghana

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1 Comment

  1. To an outsider looking on, Ghana has many challenges and those challenges cannot be blamed on any government. A change at the most basic level of society needs to happen where people become more focused on helping others rather than helping themselves.

    I have a friend who is a teacher, he has no hesitation to take days off from teaching without good cause. By doing this he demonstrates a gross lack of consideration for his pupils. If I was his boss I would dismiss him instantly.

    I believe in Ghana there needs to be a dramatic change in attitudes. One can hardly find a shopkeeper, taxi driver or other person who does not try to cheat you. Such unrighteousness that pervades any society will only serve to destroy that society.

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