A right based analysis of Ghanas free senior high school practices

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.