As Education Minister, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang saw to the:
BASIC
- Introduction of the BECE subsidy program for all registered candidates in private and public schools.
- Introduction of Private BECE for students who fail the BECE.
- Elimination of the obnoxious shift system in public basic schools.
- Improvement of textbook ratio at the basic schools from one book to three pupils to four books per pupil.
- Improvement in the quality of basic education, resulting in Ghana’s all-time best BECE performance.
- Distribution of over 40,000 free made-in-Ghana leather sandals for vulnerable pupils in basic schools and 787,485 free school uniforms to deprived districts across the country.
- Distribution of laptops for teachers free of charge.
SECONDARY
- Construction of 123 Community Day SHS (E-Blocks) across the country, 47 of which were fully completed, resourced and operationalized.
- Implementation of the Free SHS program which benefited over 320,000 day students in public SHS with a plan to expand coverage to include 120,000 boarding students in 2017.
- Ghana’s overall best performing WASSCE nations award by WAEC for four consecutive years.
- Refurbishment of all Science Resource Centres.
TERTIARY
- Conversion of polytechnics into technical universities.
- Upgrade of Colleges of Education into full-fledged tertiary institutions.
- Introduction of Students’ Loan Plus for students who gain admission but face financial handicap in raising initial, time-bound registration fees.
- Increase of student loan beneficiaries from 13,833 in the 2012/2013 academic year to 24,951 in the 2015/2016 academic year.
- Abolition of the quota system at the Colleges of Education which led to enrollment increasing from 9,000 to 15,400.
- Automatic posting of teachers without National Service and Licensure Examination.