Ghana 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
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Singapore
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Hong Kong
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South Korea
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Japan (joint)
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Taiwan (joint)
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Finland
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Estonia
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Switzerland
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Netherlands
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Canada
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Poland
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Vietnam
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Germany
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Australia
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Ireland
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Belgium
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New Zealand
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Slovenia
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Austria
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United Kingdom
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Czech Republic
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Denmark
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France
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Latvia
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Norway
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Luxembourg
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Spain
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Italy (joint)
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United States (joint)
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Portugal
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Lithuania
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Hungary
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Iceland
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Russia
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Sweden
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Croatia
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Slovak Republic
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Ukraine
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Israel
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Greece
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Turkey
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Serbia
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Bulgaria
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Romania
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UAE
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Cyprus
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Thailand
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Chile
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Kazakhstan
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Armenia
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Iran
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Malaysia
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Costa Rica
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Mexico
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Uruguay
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Montenegro
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Bahrain
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Lebanon
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Georgia
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Brazil
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Jordan
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Argentina
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Albania
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Tunisia
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Macedonia
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Saudi Arabia
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Colombia
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Qatar
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Indonesia
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Botswana
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Peru
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Oman
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Morocco
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Honduras
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South Africa
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Ghana
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.