Abstract:
The research analyzed Ghana‘s Free Senior High School Programme (FSHSP) in light
of the increasing interest to expand and strengthen its implementation to provide
access to quality education. The purpose is to do a Right-Based Analysis of the
programme‘s implementation practices. The research, therefore, examined how
stakeholders‘ participation affects the FSHSP implementation. It also analyzed how
the FSHSP implementation practices promote the right to education. It further
explored the effect of stakeholder participation in the FSHSP implementation
practices on access to quality education. The pragmatic worldview, through the
sequential mixed method design, was used for the research analysis. It provided an
insight into divergent and complementary views from relevant stakeholders about the
impact of the programme on the right to education. The research revealed that the
FSHSP implementation have been mainly government-centered. 46.2% of the
respondents strongly disagreed that the FSHSP implementation practices promote the
right to education. The study further revealed that stakeholder participation to catalyze
the right to education principles is inadequate. On the aspects of the programme that
need improvement, the findings skewed towards unequal treatment of students. It is,
therefore, recommended that there is the need for active stakeholder participation in
the FSHSP implementation as an essential ingredient to promote the child‘s right to
education in order to address its inequitable provisions.
Description:
A thesis in the Centre for Conflict, Human Rights and Peace Studies,
Faculty of social sciences, submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies, in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Master of Philosophy
(Human Rights)
in the University of Education, Winneba
NOVEMBER, 2020
