{"id":233542,"date":"2026-05-17T16:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-double-track-system-to-end-2027-govt-secures-300m-facility-to-upgrade-50-shss-president-mahama\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:42:52","slug":"ghana-double-track-system-to-end-2027-govt-secures-300m-facility-to-upgrade-50-shss-president-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-double-track-system-to-end-2027-govt-secures-300m-facility-to-upgrade-50-shss-president-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Double &#8211; Track System to End 2027 &#8211; Govt Secures $300m Facility to Upgrade 50 Shss &#8211; President Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The government has secured a US$300 million World Bank facility to upgrade 50 Senior High Schools (SHSs) across the country as part of efforts to phase out the double-track system, President John Dramani Mahama has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Under the initiative, known as the Transformative Secondary Education for Access, Results and Relevance for Jobs (STARR-J) project, 30 category C schools will be upgraded to category B, while 20 category B schools will be elevated to category A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Speaking at the commissioning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150762.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has secured a US$300 million World Bank facility to upgrade 50 Senior High Schools (SHSs) across the country as part of efforts to phase out the double-track system, President John Dramani Mahama has announced. Under the initiative, known as the Transformative Secondary Education for Access, Results and Relevance for Jobs (STARR-J) project, 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[54414,258,256,7053,9408,4508,4509,4357,7780,257,2450,10429,31852,254,7232,10900,12981],"class_list":["post-233542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-300m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-double","tag-facility","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-govt","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-president","tag-secures","tag-shss","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system","tag-track","tag-upgrade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}