Ghana presented its first national Ghanaian Sign Language (GhSL) curriculum at Africa’s largest education exchange, highlighting the country’s efforts to strengthen inclusive learning for deaf learners.

The curriculum was featured at the Africa Foundational Learning Exchange (FLEX) 2026, held in Lilongwe, Malawi, from 15th to 17th July 2026.

The introduction of the secondary education reform in 2023 created an urgent need for a more responsive and data driven system. With a new curriculum, new assessment system, guidance and counselling standards, School Improvement Plans and Professional Learning Community sessions being rolled out across schools, the Ministry needed a way to monitor whether these reforms were being implemented with fidelity across schools. The system could no longer rely on annual or ad hoc data. A coordinated, real-time approach became essential.

When Erica Tetteh was told in her final year of Junior High School (JHS) that she could study mathematics at Senior High School (SHS), she did not believe it was possible. For years, the reality for learners with visual impairment progressing from JHS to SHS has been the absence of mathematics at the SHS level, a barrier that constrained their subject choices, closed doors to certain tertiary programmes and narrowed their life options.