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111-533: Accra Academy is a boys' high school located at Bubuashie near Kaneshie in the Greater Accra Region , Ghana. It admits both boarding and day students. Founded as a private school in 1931, it gained the status of a Government-Assisted School in 1950. It is the oldest existing high school to have been founded in the Gold Coast without prior involvement of a religious society, the government or

222-447: A slogan for the school. The academy's administrators and alumni association organize annual events for the students and alumni of the school, including a speech and prize-giving day ceremony, a memorial lecture and a Home-coming Reunion. The annual speech and prize-giving day ceremony award the school's best performing students. Occasionally retired as well as active teachers and staff of the academy are awarded for their contributions to

333-655: A boys' side under one roof) in 1889. In England, most secondary education was single-sex until the 1970s. Single-sex schooling was traditionally the norm for secondary schools in most parts of the United Kingdom, especially for private, grammar and secondary modern schools, but most UK schools are now coeducational. In the state sector of the U.K. education system very few single sex schools remain. The number of single-sex state schools has fallen from nearly 2,500 to just over 400 in 40 years. According to Alan Smithers , Professor of Education at Buckingham University , there

444-434: A chiefdom. The academy runs courses in business, general science , general arts , agricultural science and visual arts , leading to the award of a West African Senior School Certificate . The academy's founders provided tuition to students who wanted a secondary-grade education but who did not have financial support to enable them do so. The first principal and co-founder, Kofi Konuah periodically travelled to some of

555-719: A committee to initiate the Ghana Stock Exchange . T. E. Anin was managing director and chairman of Ghana Commercial Bank , and Tei Mante was vice-chairman of Ecobank after being a director at IFC . Godfrey Gaoseb was an executive director of the World Bank . Felix E. Addo was country senior partner of PwC , and Felix Nyarko-Pong was managing director of uniBank . Old boys who are presently managing directors of banks include Daniel Addo of CBG , Julian Opuni of Fidelity Bank , Bernard Gyebi of Prudential Bank , and Edward Botchway of Absa Bank Ghana . In

666-616: A computerized school selection and placement system (CSSPS) which was introduced by the Ghana Education Service in 2005. Unlike in the previous grading system in which a candidate 's overall academic performance in the Basic Education Certificate Examination was obtained by computing the aggregate on the candidate's best six subject scores, the raw scores obtained by a candidate in the Basic Education Certificate Examination determines

777-784: A day-school till it began accommodating students in Claremont House in 1935, a single-storey building adjoining Ellen House, also a property leased out by Ellen Buckle. In December 1932, the academy presented its first batch of ten students for the Junior Cambridge School Certificate Examination, seven out of whom passed the examination. By 1935, several privately operated secondary schools had been established in Kumasi , Koforidua , Sekondi , and Accra . While their overall quality didn't seem to be particularly high, Accra Academy stood out as

888-899: A girl' and less aware of gender stereotypes regarding science, compared to girls who were randomly assigned to the coed classroom." In January 2012, a study of the University of Pennsylvania, involving a randomized experiment , considered the experiment with the highest level of scientific evidence. The data comes from schools in South Korea, where a law was passed randomly assigning students to schools in their district. The study by Park, Berhman, and Choi titled Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools concluded that "Attending all-boys schools or all-girls schools rather than attending coeducational schools

999-535: A girls' school, and boys rated their abilities in English higher if they went to a boys' school, i.e. gender stereotyping was weaker in the single-sex sector. Later in life, women who had been to single-sex schools went on to earn higher wages than women who had been to co-educational schools. Kokomlemle Kokomlemle is a town in the Accra Metropolitan District , a district of

1110-580: A liaison between alumni and the school. The school has graduated many notable alumni, including a member of the big six, a head of state, and a deputy head of state. 3 speakers of parliament attended the school, as well as 2 Chief Justices of Ghana. Thus, all three arms of government (executive, legislature and judiciary) have been led by the school's alumni. All three service branches of the Ghana Armed Forces (army, navy and air force) have also been led by alumni. A former fourth service branch of

1221-636: A mild punishment is asked to carry out cleaning, scrubbing, sweeping, weeding or disposing of refuse. A student who commits a grievous school offence is made to proceed on an indefinite suspension or is dismissed from the academy, a notable example of which is the dismissal of Chuckie Taylor , the son of the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor , on grounds of possessing drugs and weapons. Academy students are involved in Extracurricular activities through their membership in school associations and clubs, some of which include: As early as 1934,

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1332-434: A mixed-gender school environment (Coleman 1961, Hill 2015), girls may suffer more because of, for instance, an increase in disruptive behaviour (as discussed by Figlio 2007), or a diversion of the teacher's attention to weaker students (as suggested by Lavy et al. 2012). In Australia, most single sex schools are fee paying independent or Catholic schools. There are a small number of single sex government schools, while within

1443-406: A new site, to alleviate overcrowding. These included Hamilton (1955), Gisborne (1956), Hastings (1956), Tauranga (1958), Rotorua (1959), Westlake (1962), Kelston (1963), and Marlborough (1963). In Nigeria, public opinion regarding sexes in schools is influenced most by religious and cultural beliefs rather than the idea that students learn better separated into sexes. Because of this,

1554-432: A newly built edifice for an ICT laboratory in fulfillment of a promise the group had made in 2017 at the school's speech and prize-giving day. The academy has eight halls of residence . The first four of these halls were inaugurated as part of the school's 1967 Annual Speech and Prize Giving Day activities. Among the four, three were later renamed after founding fathers of the school, with the exception of Kofi Konuah, while

1665-519: A percentage pass of 94.7% and percentage of students of qualified academic enrolment status into a university programme in Ghana. In 2020, 672 students of the school sat the WASSCE . 633 students of this number had passes in 6 courses (i.e. 4 core courses and 2 elective courses). This represented a percentage pass of 94.2% in relation to passes in 6 courses. In 2015, Asamoah Gyan , an alumnus and captain of

1776-567: A residential facility for students was completed later in 1966. The academy acquired the nickname Little Legon shortly after the new school site was commissioned, when some students from the Western Region who had gained admission into the University of Ghana , reported at the academy instead of the University of Ghana, apparently confused by the close similarity between the infrastructure of both educational institutions. In 1981,

1887-483: A resurgence of interest in single-sex schools in modern societies across the globe, both in the public and private sector (Riordan, 2002)." The topic of single-sex education is controversial. Advocates argue that it aids student outcomes such as test scores, graduation rates, and solutions to behavioral difficulties. Opponents, however, argue that evidence for such effects is inflated or non-existent and instead argue that such segregation can increase sexism and impairs

1998-477: A right , rather than as a privilege available only to a small elite, started to gain support in North America and Europe. Mass elementary education was introduced, and more and more coeducational schools opened. Together with mass education, coeducation became standard in many places. Increased secularization in the 20th century also contributed to the acceptance of mixed sex education . In 1917 coeducation

2109-522: A single-sex environment. In the 19th century, in Western countries, single-sex girls' finishing schools , and women's colleges offered women a chance of education at a time when they were denied access to mainstream educational institutions. The former was especially common in Switzerland, the latter in the U.S. and the U.K., pioneers in women's education. In Western Europe before the 19th century,

2220-489: A small number of PRE-SCHOOL students attending a COED pre-kindergarten" (capitalized letters in the original). He further said that "these authors provide no evidence for their substantive claim that 'gender divisions are made even more salient in SS settings.' In fact, this conjecture has been tested, and proven false, in multiple studies." Sax cited a study which said that "girls in the all-girls classroom were less aware of 'being

2331-493: A state school instead of going to an expensive private girls' school. Finally, in 1927, all state secondary schools for boys were integrated, and the private girls' schools started to be transformed into coeducational schools, a process which was completed by 1970. While England has a very strong tradition of single-sex education, education in Scotland was largely mixed, and Wales introduced dual schools (a girls' side and

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2442-491: A washroom. Each academic year, the administrators of the academy organize athletics competitions between the members of the four Halls of Residence as a way of building up rapport among students. These inter-Hall athletic competitions also serve as an avenue for the academy's sports trainers to select students with outstanding sports qualities who can represent the academy in external sports competitions. The Accra Academy maintains strict rules on discipline. A student undertaking

2553-568: A well-organized institution, boasting an enrollment of 469 students. In the annual report for the academic year 1938–39, Accra Academy received positive recognition. The report described it as a well-funded institution that is effectively administered, with a student body of 469 boys. In 1939, the academy presented 45 students for the Senior Cambridge School Certificate Examination, out of whom 42 students passed, with 10 students obtaining exemption from

2664-562: Is CEO of EIB Network Group. Other media personalities include African Journalist of the Year Award winner Israel Laryea ; Randy Abbey of Good Morning Ghana ; Akwasi Sarpong of BBC 's Focus on Africa , Bright Nana Amfoh, Seniors News Editor of Metro TV ; Francis Abban , current affairs presenter at GHOne TV and Alfred Akrofi Ocansey, current affairs programme host at TV 3 . In sports, old boys include Ohene Djan , known to be Ghana's iconic sports administrator and first chairman of

2775-538: Is also believed that by having single-sex classrooms, the students will be able to focus more on their education, as they will not have the distraction of the other sex. The study argues that coeducation schools provide opportunities for students to interact with their peers, which de-stresses students and creates a friendlier, more relaxed environment. Ireland has significantly more pupils studying in single-sex schools than other western countries: more than one-third of second-level schools are single-sex. Single-sex education

2886-480: Is also the first school to have produced a head of government and a deputy head of government in the same Ghanaian government. Accra Academy was founded by Messrs. Kofi George Konuah , Samuel Neils Awuletey, Gottfried Narku Alema and James Akwei Halm-Addo on 20 July 1931, at Mantse Agbonaa, a suburb of James Town in Accra. The academy's founders operated the school from a one-storey house that provided classrooms for

2997-499: Is an old boy, and the current Chief of Air Staff , Frederick Asare Bekoe , is an old boy. Monarchs who attended the school include the Osagyefo Kuntunkununku II , 34th Okyenhene and Paramount Chief of Akyem Abuakwa ; Oyeeman Wereko Ampem II , Ohene of Amanokrom ; Nana Kwabena Wiafe , Omanhene of Offinso Traditional Area ; Nana Akuoko Sarpong , Omanhene of Agogo Traditional Area ; and Neenyi Ghartey VII ,

3108-616: Is an old boy. In public service, Joseph Odunton was the first black African to hold an appointment at Buckingham Palace . Nathan Quao , Gilbert Boahene and Ben Eghan have been Secretary to the Cabinet . Robert Dodoo , a former Head of the Civil Service, attended the school. Edward Quist-Arcton was the first Ghanaian forestry head; Harry Dodoo was the first Ghanaian to lead the Ghana Cocoa Board ; E. N. Omaboe

3219-875: Is less common at the primary level than at the secondary level: 17% of primary school children attend single-sex schools. In the Middle East, public schools in several countries are all gender-segregated. In some countries, there are single-sex private schools as well. In Iran, single-sex public and private schools have been in place since the Islamic Revolution . Universities are mostly coeducational in Iran but schools are single-sex . University of Kosar (Bojnourd, Iran) and Narjes Rafsanjan University (Rafsanjan, Iran) are two examples of female-only universities. In Israel, secular public schools are coeducational. Many, but not all, Orthodox public schools are single-sex;

3330-476: Is mandated for those grade 4 and above. In New Zealand, almost all primary schools are coeducational (1,935 co-ed, 7 boys-only, 4 girls-only), while there are more examples of single-sex secondary schools. There are 45 boys-only secondary schools, 53 girls-only secondary schools and 274 mixed secondary schools as of July 2018 . During the mid-20th century, several state coeducational secondary schools split into two single-sex schools, with one school moving to

3441-640: Is no well-designed research showing that single-sex (SS) education improves students' academic performance, but there is evidence that sex segregation increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism." Leonard Sax , the President of National Association for Single-sex Public Education or NASSPE, countered the Science article by saying that "ALL the studies cited in the SCIENCE article regarding 'negative impacts' were in fact studies involving

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3552-459: Is preferred, like Peshawar and Quetta , where many schools are single-sex educational. However, there are also schools in the urban areas which are coeducational. Most colleges are also single-sex education institutions till graduation, but many private and public sector universities have coeducation systems. There are some women's universities in Peshawar and Rawalpindi as well. However, most of

3663-486: Is significantly associated with higher average scores." In 2014, E. Pahlke, J. S. Hyde, and C. M. Allison published a meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin comparing achievement and attitudes in single-sex versus coeducational schools that included 1.6 million students in grades K-12. The study concluded that "there is little evidence of an advantage of SS schooling for girls or boys for any of

3774-624: Is the first African president of Millersville University of Pennsylvania . Scholars educated include plant pathologist Edwin Asomaning FGA , surgeon Emmanuel Archampong FGA , soil scientist David Acquaye FGA , jurist Fred Apaloo FGA , jurist V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe FGA , mycologist George Odamtten FGA , economist Peter Quartey FGA , historian Robert Addo-Fening , microbiologist Michael McClelland , mathematician Abdul–Aziz Yakubu , physician Rexford Ahima , and geneticist James Adjaye . In medicine , alumni include

3885-637: The Ghana Football Association , and his successor; H. P. Nyemitei . Asamoah Gyan , the Black Stars ' former captain and all-time top scorer, and his teaammate Lee Addy attended the school. Prosper Harrison Addo is currently General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association. Daniel Nii Laryea is the highest Ghanaian ranked football match official by CAF rankings. In boxing, Alhassan Brimah competed in

3996-546: The Greater Accra Region of Ghana and noted for the location of Joy FM and Accra Technical Training Center (ATTC) , among other institutions. Kokomlemle is recognized as the capital town of the Ayawaso Central Municipal District . It is surrounded by other towns such as, Newtown, Nima and Asylum Down . 5°35′N 0°12′W  /  5.583°N 0.200°W  / 5.583; -0.200 This Greater Accra location article

4107-548: The West African College of Surgeons , and Joseph Kpakpo Acquaye was president of the West African College of Physicians . In the arts, Jerry Hansen founded and became the first president of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) . Veteran music producer Zapp Mallet coined the term “hip life," and KiDi is the 2022 VGMA artist of the year. Actor Chris Attoh and writer Amu Djoleto also attended

4218-521: The women's college Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm from 1861, and its adjacent girls' school Statens normalskola för flickor . The Girls' School Committee of 1866 organized the regulation of girls' schools and female education in Sweden: from 1870, some girls' schools were given the right to offer the gymnasium (school) level to their students, and from 1874, those girls' schools which met

4329-523: The 17th-century, schools for girls opened in both Roman Catholic Southern Germany and Protestant Northern Germany. In Catholic Germany, the Catholic Ursuline and Elisabeth sisters established first elementary education schools for poor children and orphans and eventually (before 1750), also a type of secondary education girls' schools for wealthy girls called "daughters institutes", which were essentially finishing schools. In Protestant Germany,

4440-529: The 1960s. The 1960s and 1970s were a period of intense social changes. Many anti-discrimination laws were passed during that era, such as the 1972 Title IX . Wiseman (2008) shows that by 2003, only a few countries globally have greater than one or two percent single-sex schools. But there are exceptions where the percent of single-sex schools exceeds 10 percent: Belgium, Chile, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, and most Muslim nations. Recently, however, there has been

4551-536: The 21 other countries yielded much smaller effects, such as a 0.10 effect on mathematics for girls and a 0.06 effect for boys and science (0.06 for girls and 0.04 for boys). Most of the international effects, then, would fall within Riordan's stricter criterion for statistical significance. In 2017, Christian Dustmann, Hyejin Ku, Do Won Kwak explained that "While teenage boys may be more likely to be distracted than girls by

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4662-494: The Accra Academy from Jamestown to Bubuashie authored by Simon Ontoyin, an alumnus. Being a senior high school for boys, the academy offers admission to boys only. Gaining entry into the academy is competitive, and open to students who have completed Junior high school . Prior to writing their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) , final year Junior High School students, register for senior high school through

4773-514: The City of Toronto include: Notre Dame High School , Neil McNeil High School , Chaminade College School , St. Joseph's Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School , Madonna Catholic Secondary School , Brebeuf College School , St. Joseph's College School , Michael Power High School, St. Joseph's High School, Islington , St. Andrew's College , St. Michael's College School , Upper Canada College , Havergal College and Royal St. George's College . As

4884-607: The Ghana Armed Forces (border guards), during its brief existence, was also led by an alumni. The national assemblies which deliberated over and presented the draft constitutions of Ghana's Third Republic and Fourth Republic were both chaired by alumni. In the field of politics , Ghana's second head of government, J. A. Ankrah , and his deputy, J. W. K. Harlley were old boys. The school has educated 3 speakers of parliament : Daniel Francis Annan , Peter Ala Adjetey , and Edward Doe Adjaho . Ako Adjei , named amongst

4995-556: The London Matriculation Examination. By the year 1945, the academy had established itself as a stable institution and had achieved a level of effectiveness that set it apart from other secondary schools that did not receive assistance from the Government. As of the start of 1946, there were 467 male students attending the school. In 1947, a recommendation was made to the director of education to grant

5106-523: The Omanhene of Winneba , Effutu Traditional Area. The first black African Rhodes Scholar , Lebrecht Wilhem Fifi Hesse , was educated at the school. Frank Gibbs Torto FGA , a chemist, was the first Ghanaian appointed lecturer of the University of Ghana (the oldest university in Ghana); and Kwadzo Senanu was acting vice-chancellor of University of Ghana for the 1983/84 academic year. Daniel Wubah

5217-535: The Secondary School Certificate or SSC), intermediate (grades eleven and twelve, leading to a Higher Secondary School Certificate or HSSC), and university programs leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees. Most of the private schools in major cities like Karachi , Lahore , Faisalabad , Hyderabad , Islamabad and Rawalpindi have co-education systems but all public schools adhere single-sex education. In some cities, single-sex education

5328-623: The St. Mary's Senior Secondary School, now St. Mary's Senior High School . Single-sex education Single-sex education is practiced in many parts of the world based on tradition and religion; Single-sex education is most popular in English-speaking countries (regions) such as Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, South Africa and Australia; also in Chile, Israel, South Korea and in many Muslim majority countries. In

5439-657: The Third Republic to have again served as a minister in the Fourth Republic, is an alumnus. Paul Boateng , the first person of colour to be appointed a cabinet minister in a UK government, is also an alumnus. The current Minister for Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah , is an old boy. In law, Accra Academy alumni include Chief Justices Samuel Azu Crabbe , and Fred Apaloo , and acting Chief Justices; G. C. Mills-Odoi , N. Y. B. Adade , and Jones Dotse . In all, nine (9) Supreme Court Justices have been educated at

5550-455: The Western world, single-sex education is primarily associated with the private sector , with the public (state) sector being overwhelmingly mixed sex; while in the Muslim world public schools and private schools are sex-segregated. Motivations for single-sex education range from religious ideas of sex segregation to beliefs that the sexes learn and behave differently. As such, they thrive in

5661-441: The academic problems of low achieving students, (10) Reduces sexual harassment among students, (11) Provides more positive student role models, (12) Allows for more opportunities to provide social and moral guidance, (13) Provides choice in public education. Australian researchers reported in 2009 that high school students' interpersonal relationships were positively associated with both academic and nonacademic achievement, although

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5772-582: The academy are: general arts , general science , agriculture, business and visual arts. As part of their computerized school selection and placement system registration, final year junior high school applicants select four elective courses . Unlike elective courses, core courses are offered to all students, irrespective of their programme of study. The academy's core courses are: English language, core mathematics, social studies , integrated science, ICT (core) and physical education , however, students are only examined both internally and externally as well, in

5883-523: The academy as part of its accelerated development plan. Owing to his efforts, Accra Academy was offered a 37-acre plot of land at Bubuashie, off the Winneba Road. Barnes, Hubbard & Arundel's local office in Accra were the architects for the school's first buildings at Bubuashie. J. Monta & Sons was awarded the contract to develop the new school site in October 1959, and by July 1961, presented

5994-431: The academy celebrated its golden jubilee with a student enrolment of 900 and a teaching staff of 52. Historian Robert Addo-Fening , as part of celebrations, of the golden jubilee documented the early history of the Accra Academy for publishing as a Golden Jubilee Brochure. This source was to serve as an important reference point for the first history book on the school published in 2022 titled Accra Aca Bleoo: The History of

6105-409: The academy the status of a Government Assisted School. The recommendation was approved, and the academy begun operating as a Government Assisted school from 1 January 1950. Due to a steady increase in the number of applicants applying for enrolment in the academy, the academy's administrators began preparations to relocate the academy to a larger and permanent site. The initial site acquired to relocate

6216-555: The academy's administrators hired a sports-master to organize the sporting activities of the academy. Students were trained in athletics, soccer, and hockey . The academy won the Aggrey Shield together with seven other trophies in the annual inter-college athletics competition held in 1950, and through which the academy became recognized in Ghanaian inter-college sports, while the words " Accra Aca, Bleoo " came to also serve as

6327-428: The association and have the responsibility of planning and executing all programmes or events that are organised by the association. The association is operated from a national secretariat , which doubles as the association's headquarters in Accra. It is located on the premises of the school and is responsible for coordinating the activities of all year groups and regional secretariats of the association. It also serves as

6438-628: The attitude towards the separation/integration of sexes varies depending on the ethnic makeup of the region. People in northern Nigeria are primarily Muslim and, as a result, are more inclined to choose single-sex education over coeducation in line with their religious beliefs. However, country-wide, coeducation schools are more common than single-sex schools. In contrast to the predominance of coeducation schools, many prestigious educational institutions only accept one sex; notable examples include King's College and Queen's College situated in Lagos. Although

6549-520: The best candidate in Business at the previous year WASSCE . In 2017, a former student was adjudged as the second overall best candidate and the second best candidate in General Science for the previous year WASSCE in Ghana. In 2018, 676 students of the school sat the WASSCE . 640 students of this number passed in all 8 courses taken (i.e. obtained grades between A1 to C6). This represented

6660-535: The big six , attended the school. Henry P. Nyemitei was general secretary of the CPP during the first general election held in 1951 . A decade after, in 1961, H. H. Cofie Crabbe run the erstwhile CPP's headquarters as executive secretary. 3 successive chairmen of the New Patriotic Party have been old boys (Peter Ala Adjetey, Samuel Odoi-Sykes , Harona Esseku ). Harry Sawyerr , the only minister of

6771-483: The candidates overall academic performance in the exam under the computerized school selection and placement system. Because the computerized school selection and placement system uses a deferred-acceptance algorithm which ensures that Junior high school applicants are admitted strictly based on academic merit, administrators of the academy use raw scores obtained in the Basic Education Certificate Examination to admit applicants from Junior High School. The programmes run in

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6882-415: The classrooms. Supporters of single-sex education also argue that the culture of coeducational settings causes some students to focus more on socialization, rather than prioritizing academics. Single-sex education supporters blame this focus on socialization for causing problems in student participation, attendance levels, and disciplinary problems. A systematic review published in 2005 covering 2221 studies

6993-738: The compulsory elementary school for both sexes in Sweden in 1842, only five schools in Sweden provided academic secondary education to females: the Societetsskolan (1786), Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola (1815) and Kjellbergska flickskolan (1833) in Gothenburg , Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund , and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm. During the second half of the 19th century, secondary education girl schools were in most Swedish cities. All of these were private, except

7104-417: The country on government contract. In 2019, the class of 1982 donated a multipurpose court for the games of basketball and lawn tennis. In 2017, Tullow Ghana completed a refurbishment of the school's science laboratory block. During the refurbishment, the class of 1990 provided and fitted interactive projectors and smartboards to laboratories within the refurbished block. In 2023, the class of 1986 opened up

7215-748: The curriculum more relevant." In Bangladesh, a large number of government and non-government schools and colleges are single-sex institutions except for the universities. Notable all Cantonment schools (non-residential schools run directly by Military), Zilla Schools (run directly by Government [First starting in early colonial ages]), Cadet colleges (residential schools run directly by Military) are single-sex schools. Conservative parents in Bangladesh tend to send their children to single-sex educational institutions. Many single-sex schools exist in Canada, particularly Roman Catholic separate schools. Examples in

7326-504: The demands were given governmental support, and some were given the right to administer the school-leaving exam. This was necessary to make it possible for women to enroll at the universities, which had been opened to women in 1870, as female students were not accepted in the same middle schools as male students. Between 1904 and 1909, girls were integrated with state boys' schools on the secondary levels, making it possible for girls to complete their elementary- and middle-level education in

7437-573: The development of interpersonal skills. Advocates of single-sex education believe that there are persistent sex differences in how males and females learn and behave in educational settings and that such differences merit educating them separately. One version of this argument holds that male-female brain differences favor implementing sex-specific teaching methods, but such claims have not held up to rigorous scrutiny. In addition, supporters of single-sex education argue that by segregating sexes, students do not become distracted by another sex's actions in

7548-615: The directors of the research. In 2008, the U.S. government sponsored another study, Early Implementation of Public Single-Sex Schools: Perceptions and Characteristics , which listed the benefits of single-sex schools: (1) Decreases distractions in learning, (2) Reduces student behavior problems, (3) Provides more leadership opportunities, (4) Promotes a sense of community among students and staff, (5) Improves student self-esteem, (6) Addresses unique learning styles and interests of males or females, (7) Decreases sex bias in teacher-student interactions, (8) Improves student achievement, (9) Decreases

7659-525: The effects were minor, and the authors concluded "that the marginal benefits do not justify the potential threats to gender equity brought on by academic sex segregation". In September 2011, the journal Science published a study deeply critical of gender-segregated schooling, arguing that the movement towards single-sex education "is deeply misguided, and often justified by weak, cherry-picked, or misconstrued scientific claims rather than by valid scientific evidence". The study goes on to conclude that "there

7770-477: The first Ghanaian neurosurgeon, J. F. O. Mustaffah ; the first Ghanaian eye specialist, Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome ; and Jacob Amekor Blukoo-Allotey , who is known for his pioneering role in the study of pharmacology in Ghana. Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome and Jacob Plange-Rhule were both once presidents of the Ghana Medical Association . Emmanuel Quaye Archampong was president of

7881-423: The first five aforementioned courses. The academy's curriculum like that of other senior high schools in Ghana, operates in a three-year academic cycle, from form one to form three. The beginning of the first academic year marks the enrolment of the student in the academy, while the ending of the third academic year marks the graduation of the student. The academy maintains a high academic standard and has over

7992-439: The fourth is named after Mrs. Ellen Buckle. The remaining four halls were inaugurated as part of the school's 83rd Founders' Day Celebration in 2014. They are named after alumni; Nana Akuoko Sarpong , Peter Ala Adjetey , Nana Wereko Ampem and Nana Awuah Darko Ampem . Each hall is supervised by a hall-master while a senior hall-master serves as a liaison between all four halls of residence. Hall-prefects assist hall-masters in

8103-728: The great Pietist school innovator August Hermann Francke of Halle founded Gynaeceum, the first girls school or 'Mädchenschule' in 1698. The Gynaeceum was followed by many Pietist girls' schools in Germany, notably the Magdalenenstift in Altenburg and Johann Julius Hecker's Royal Elisabeth School in Berlin in 1747. In the 18th-century, it became common with so-called Töchterschule ('daughter school') in German cities, supported by

8214-467: The higher education in Pakistan is coeducation. Around 1800, girls' middle-secondary schools began to appear, and become more common during the 19th century. By the mid-1970s, most of them had been scrapped and replaced with coeducation . By law from the 1570s ( Swedish Church Ordinance 1571 ), girls, as well as boys, were expected to be given elementary schooling. The establishment for girls' schools

8325-835: The independent sector the proportion of pupils attending single sex schools has dropped from 31% in 1985 to 24% in 1995. Nevertheless, as of 2016 single sex education in Australia is much more popular than in the US. In 2001, after six years of study of more than 270,000 students in 53 academic subjects, the Australian Council for Educational Research showed that boys and girls from single-sex classrooms "scored on average 15 to 22 percentile ranks higher than did boys and girls in coeducational settings. The report also documented that boys and girls in single-sex schools were more likely to be better behaved and to find learning more enjoyable and

8436-491: The interaction between boys and girls in a majority of cases resulted in less homework done, less enjoyment of school, and lower reading and math scores. A UCLA report commissioned by the National Coalition of Girls' Schools used data from an extensive national survey of U.S. college freshmen and found stronger academic orientations among women who had attended all-girls, compared to coeducational high schools, but

8547-504: The major towns in each region of the country to organize entrance examinations for students, so as to offer the brilliant but needy among them the opportunity of education in the Accra Academy. The academy no longer offers special admission to brilliant but needy students but, as per a 2005 general directive from the Ghana Education Service , admits its students through a school selection placement system. Accra Academy

8658-683: The media, Joe Lartey ("over to you, Joe Lartey"), considered one of the greatest football commentators in Africa, studied at the school. Eric Heymann was Editor of the Evening News and Goodwin Tutum Anim was the first Ghanaian to head Ghana News Agency ; Earl Ankrah is known to have pioneered breakfast shows in Ghana; Ben Ephson is a renowned pollster; founder and chief editor of the Daily Dispatch ; and Nathan Adisi (Bola Ray)

8769-418: The merchant class who wished for their daughters to be given elementary schooling, as well as girls schools known as Mädchenpensionat , essentially finishing schools for upper-class daughters. In the early 19th-century, secondary education girls schools known as höhere Töchterschule ('Higher Daughter school') became common: these schools were given government support and became public in many German cities in

8880-531: The most common way for girls to access education was at home, through private tutoring , and not at school, due to the strong resistance to women's involvement in schools. This attitude began to change in the 17th and 18th centuries, when girls' schools were established in both Catholic Europe, where they were managed by nuns, as well as in Protestant Europe, where they were managed by governesses, philanthropists, and private entrepreneurs. The development

8991-406: The newly developed site with new buildings to the school administrators. In September 1961, the academy relocated from Ellen House to the present site at Bubuashie. A ceremony to officially open up the new buildings was held on 3 February 1962 and A. J. Dowuona-Hammond , Minister for Education and incidentally an old student, unveiled a commemorative plaque. The first dormitory block to serve as

9102-506: The outcomes." In a 2015 review of this study, however Cornelius Riordan observed that the authors "employ a 0.2 effect-size threshold in drawing these conclusions about there being no advantage to single-sex schooling. Despite the above conclusion, the research found that, in a separate analysis of just the best studies (well controlled) conducted in America, the effect size in mathematics was 0.14 for both boys and girls. The verbal performance

9213-416: The performance of their official duties and have a general responsibility to maintain order in their halls. Hall-masters are not resident in the halls they supervise but rather housed in staff bungalows on the school's premises, on the other hand, hall-prefects reside in the halls in which they exercise jurisdiction. Each hall of residence contains a bedroom, storage room, ironing room, prefects' cubicle and

9324-421: The playing of table tennis, football and snooker . The association functions as an old boys network which is opened to any person who has been enrolled in the academy for more than one year. The association has a governing body consisting of: a president, secretary, treasurer and a public relations officer elected at an annual general meeting for a fixed tenure of office. They form the executive committee of

9435-505: The preponderance of studies in areas such as academic accomplishment (both concurrent and long term) and adaptation or socioemotional development (both concurrent and long term) yields results lending support to single-sex schooling. The quantitative data itself "finds positive results are three to four times more likely to be found for single-sex schools than for coeducational schools in the same study for both academic achievement and socio-emotional development," said Cornelius Riordan, one of

9546-658: The private ultra-Orthodox schools are almost always gender-segregated, usually starting in elementary school. In Lebanon, most schools are co-educational schools. All schools are sex segregated, there are only boy or girl schools. The first private formal school for girls, the Madrasat AlBanat AlAhliah, was established in 1941. In Syria, private schools are coeducational, while public schools are mostly, but not exclusively, segregated. Universities are all coeducational. Private schools are coeducational in all Emirates but Sharjah, where segregated sex schooling

9657-455: The same school in 1788. During the 18th century, many girls' schools were established, referred to as Mamsellskola (' Mamsell school') or Franskpension ('French pension'). These schools could normally be classified as finishing schools, with only a shallow education of polite conversation in French, embroidery, piano playing, and other accomplishments, and the purpose was only to give

9768-554: The school include the first Ghanaian Attorney General of Ghana, George Mills-Odoi ; the first female Attorney General of Ghana, Betty Mould-Iddrisu ; Nicholas Yaw Boafo Adade ; and Gustav Koranteng-Addow . Prior to the merger of the post of Minister of Justice with that of Attorney-General, Ako Adjei was Ghana's first Minister of Justice . Peter Ala Adjetey is a former president of the Ghana Bar Association . The current Special Prosecutor of Ghana , Kissi Agyebeng ,

9879-479: The school was situated at Kokomlemle ; however, this site had to be abandoned as a result of a prolonged litigation concerning the ownership of the land. A second site, which was located at Korle Gonno , was also given up because of its remote location. The search for a new school site ended in 1956 when J. A. Halm-Addo succeeded in lobbying the Convention People's Party government to relocate and expand

9990-626: The school, including Justice Samuel Adibu Asiedu , an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana . Internationally, Walter Onnoghen was Chief Justice of Nigeria , Apaloo served as Chief Justice of Kenya , Azu Crabbe was Justice of the East African Court of Appeal and Frederick Bruce-Lyle was the longest serving judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court . Attorneys-General who attended

10101-482: The school. Others in the fine arts include visual artists; Prince Gyasi , Bright Tetteh Ackwerh , and Ray Styles , and sculptors; Eric Adjetey Anang and Constance Swaniker . In business and entrepreneurship, Nana Awuah Darko Ampem I , widely regarded as the godfather of insurance in Ghana, is known to have founded Ghana's first private indigenous insurance company (Vanguard Assurance). E. N. Omaboe (also Nana Wereko Ampem II) and John Kobina Richardson served on

10212-452: The school. The Konuah-Halm-Addo-Awuletey-Alema Memorial Lectures (formerly Accra Academy Foundation Lectures ) was instituted in 1991 by Vincent Freeman, then academy headmaster, as part of the school's 60th anniversary celebrations. Home-coming reunions are usually organised as part of the academy's anniversary celebrations. They are usually characterized by bonding activities that include the singing of popular school songs called Jamas and

10323-532: The second half of the 19th-century and their education adjusted to become equivalents of the secondary education boys' schools. In 1908, women were allowed to attend university, and in the 20th-century, the public secondary education system was integrated. Figures indicate that, as of 2002, 53% of girls in the Indian population actually attend schools. Some conservative parents may decide to withdraw their daughters at puberty onset because of fear of distraction. It

10434-422: The secondary education. When the problem of unqualified female teachers in the girls' secondary education was addressed by a state teacher's seminary for women and state secondary education for girls, both of these were still gender-segregated. The French school system was not desegregated on the middle secondary education level until the 20th century. Germany was a pioneer in the education of girls. Beginning in

10545-495: The senior side of the male national football team, announced he will be funding the construction of an astro turf football pitch facility for the school. The facility became the first football astro turf facility to be constructed in a Ghanaian school and only one of a few in the country at its completion in 2017. The construction of the pitch was done by Wembley Sports Construction, a company owned by Robert Coleman, an alumnus. Coleman went on to put up many more astro turf facilities in

10656-406: The sexes are not separated in the classroom at the university level, it is common practice to employ a single-sex housing policy on university campuses, e.g., Covenant University . The education system in Pakistan is generally divided into six levels: preschool (for the age from 3 to 5 years), primary (grades one through five), middle (grades six through eight), high (grades nine and ten, leading to

10767-485: The sport at the Olympics and was the 1962 African Middleweight champion. In athletics, Allotei Konuah managed Ghana's first appearances at both the Olympics and Commonwealth games; and N. A. Adjin-Tettey is a pioneer national athletics coach. John Myles-Mills and brother Leo Myles-Mills each competed on the track at two Olympic events. ACASMA is the joint association of the old boys and girls of Accra Academy and

10878-466: The state elementary education school system in 1836, but girls and boys were only integrated into the lower levels, while the secondary education of girls was entrusted to girls' schools managed by either nuns or governesses, both of whom lacked the necessary qualifications. When women were formally allowed to attend university in France in 1861, it was hard for them to qualify because of the bad quality of

10989-404: The students a proper minimum education to be a lady, a wife, and a mother. In the first half of the 19th century, growing discontent over the shallow education of women eventually resulted in the finishing schools being gradually replaced by girls' schools with a higher level of academic secondary education, called "Higher Girl Schools", in the mid-19th century. At the time of the introduction of

11100-434: The students. The facility was named Ellen House after its leaser, Ellen Buckle. Ellen was the widow of Vidal J. Buckle, a lawyer and Gold Coast elite, who built the property. The academy began work with a student enrolment of 19, distributed into Forms 1 through to 3. The founders of the academy together with two others, M. F. Dei-Anang and S.S. Sackey, comprised the pioneer teaching staff of the school. The academy operated as

11211-493: The years been ranked among the best performing senior high schools in Ghana. In 2009, the academy was listed among six other schools in the Greater Accra Region, which had 60% or more of its candidates qualifying for tertiary education. In a survey, the academy was listed among secondary schools in Ghana that contribute 50% or more of its students to universities. In 2012, a former student was adjudged by WAEC as

11322-518: Was 0.22 for girls and 0.13 for boys.... Educational research has shown that a standard effect size of 0.10 on gains from sophomore to senior year of high school is equivalent to one full year of learning by the average public school student in the United States." Thus, he says, that "Applying this standard, a difference of 0.10 (or greater) between students in single-sex and in coeducational schools would be substantially important." The analysis of

11433-513: Was commissioned by the United States Department of Education entitled Single-sex versus coeducational schooling: A systematic review . The review, which had statistical controls for socio-economic status of the students and resources of the schools, etc., found that in the study on the effects of single-sex schooling: In general, most studies reported positive effects for single-sex schools on all-subject achievement tests, and

11544-685: Was customary in Catholic countries in Europe, girls were educated in convent schools for girls operated by nuns, such as Abbaye de Penthemont in Paris. A rare exception was Maison royale de Saint-Louis , founded by Madame de Maintenon in 1684. After the French Revolution , it became more common with girls' schools , often operated by governesses, a famous pioneer school being Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan . France formally included girls in

11655-500: Was founded in 1772, originally as a primary school, later becoming an academy (high school) and finally a college. The New England Female Medical College (1848) and the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1850) were the first medical institutions in the world established to train women in medicine and offer them the M.D. degree. During the 19th century, ideas about education started to change: modern ideas that defined education as

11766-474: Was left to each city's authorities, and no school for girls was founded until the Rudbeckii flickskola in 1632, and that school was an isolated example. However, schools for boys did accept female students at the lowest levels and occasionally even at high levels: Ursula Agricola and Maria Jonae Palmgren were accepted at Visingsö Gymnasium in 1644 and 1645 respectively, and Aurora Liljenroth graduated from

11877-575: Was mandated in the Soviet Union. According to Cornelius Riordan, "By the end of the nineteenth century, coeducation was all but universal in American elementary and secondary public schools (see Kolesnick, 1969; Bureau of Education, 1883; Butler, 1910; Riordan, 1990). Furthermore, by the end of the 20th century, this was largely true across the world. In the U.K., Australia, and Ireland, the tradition of single-sex education remained quite strong until

11988-534: Was no evidence that single-sex schools were consistently superior. A major longitudinal study of over 17,000 individuals examined whether single-sex schooling made a difference for a wide range of outcomes, including academic attainment, earnings, marriage, childbearing and divorce. The authors found that girls fared better in examinations at age 16 at single-sex schools, while boys achieved similar results at single-sex or co-educational schools. Girls rated their abilities in maths and sciences higher if they went to

12099-417: Was ranked 8th out of the top 100 high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni , school profile, internet and news visibility. Amongst its achievements include; being the first school to have produced successive Chief Justices of Ghana , and the only school to have produced successive Ghanaian Speakers of Parliament . It

12210-439: Was similar in the U.S., where early feminists also successfully established women's educational institutions. These were different from and considered inferior to men's institutions. However, they created some of the first opportunities to formalized higher education for women in the Western world. The Seven Sisters colleges offered unprecedented emancipation for women. The pioneer Salem College of Winston-Salem, North Carolina ,

12321-643: Was the first Ghanaian to be Government Statistician. V. C. R. A. C. Crabbe established the first Electoral Commission, and J. W. K. Harlley became the first Inspector General of Police since the title was officially used in 1966. 4 alumni have been Chiefs of Army Staff of the Ghana Army ; this includes the first Ghanaian to take up the role, Joseph Arthur Ankrah, who later served as Chief of Defence Staff . The others are Neville Odartey-Wellington , William Bruce-Konuah and Joseph Adinkrah . The first Ghanaian appointed Chief of Naval Staff , David Hansen ,

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