TEX Foundation
Our first school, TEX Junior High, opens in the Upper East Region in 2030: a rigorous, technology-embedded education, real work experience from age twelve, and the confidence to solve problems in any field.
The catch-up gap is not a failure of ability. It is a failure of timing.
Too many bright students from the North reach each new stage of school having to catch up with peers who arrived with more exposure. That gap was never about ability. It was about access.
TEX closes it at Junior High, while it is still cheap to close, so the advantage compounds instead of the deficit. Some of us were lucky. With TEX, a child in Bolgatanga will not need to be.
Vision
Students should not have to leave their communities to get a world-class, technology-fluent education.
Mission
To produce technically competent young people who use technology to solve problems in any field.
Six gaps TEX is built to close
Every part of the year has a job
Small classes, excellent teachers and a residential setting that removes the daily barriers to learning. Admission is by entrance exam, skills survey and interview: we select on potential.
Technology bootcamp
Students are grouped by skill and brought to a common baseline, so no one starts from the bottom.
Learning by projects
Technology in every subject, a weekly project block, a major project each term and a yearly exhibition.
Internships
Placements with partners in IT, energy, engineering, health and more, applying technology in each.
Post-exam placement
The wait for results becomes real workplace experience.
C.O.D.E.
Curiosity
We reward the student who asks why, then goes and finds out.
Ownership
Your work, your machine, your word, your mistakes.
Discipline
Excellence is built in the unglamorous hours.
Excellence
Not "good for the North." Good, full stop.
What the next generation needs to possess
Builders, not just users
Code, design and make things that work. Use AI tools with judgement, not dependence.
Clear thinkers
Strong in maths and science. Reason from evidence and question what they read.
Readers and writers
A genuine love of good literature, African and world. Write clearly and speak with confidence.
Rooted and global
Know the history, languages and arts of Ghana and the North, and speak French.
Makers of value
Turn problems into products and services, in any field. Understand money and enterprise.
People of character
Honest, disciplined and kind. They serve their community and look after their wellbeing.
The TEX Transcript
Beside the BECE results: internships, projects, certifications, books read and the C.O.D.E. values, signed off by teachers and hosts.
Career services
A careers adviser in the admin block, for career and professional development. From Basic 7, every student builds a CV that stands out, backed by real work and real references.
Alumni for life
We follow the founding cohort through their lives, and they start the TEX alumni board.
Ultramodern, built for the northern climate
A surveyed 0.91-acre candidate site in the Upper East Region. Six blocks rise to a ground and first floor, laid square to the plot, which leaves room for gardens, a netted sports court and staff parking. Flat roofs with solar power, timber fins for shade, ribbon windows for daylight, and four 5,000-litre polytanks on 9-metre towers that feed every tap. A pillared gate with the school sign, a security post and a book and stationery shop mark the entrance.
Concept renders, indicative only. Explore the interactive 3D model.
Wine, cyan and white
White short-sleeve shirts and wine skirts or trousers for everyday, a cyan polo for sport, and a wine blazer with cyan piping for ceremonies only. Light fabrics for the northern heat.
One foundation, a ladder of TEX schools
The TEX Foundation is a non-profit company limited by guarantee that owns and runs the TEX schools. Each stage opens only when the one below it is proven.
TEX Junior High
Basic 7 to 9, 20 students per class, boarding, one-to-one computing.
TEX Senior High
Deeper specialisation, longer placements, WASSCE and Cambridge tracks.
TEX University
A technology-focused tertiary institution: the top of the pipeline.
Where we grow: Upper East Region → all of northern Ghana → the rest of Ghana → Africa → the world
Help us open the doors
TEX is non-profit by design: every surplus cedi goes back into scholarships, teachers and facilities. We are looking for people and organisations who want to build the North.
Start a conversation- Sponsor a student: fund a named place for a talented child.
- Host interns: IT firms, engineering and energy organisations, health, agriculture and more.
- Mentor: share your experience with final-year students.
- Support teaching: training, curriculum and equipment.
- Build the campus: fund the library, maker block, cafeteria and more.
Talk to the founding team
Whether you are a parent, a potential sponsor, a partner organisation or a future teacher, we would like to hear from you.
- Coming soon
- Phone
- Coming soon
- Location
- Upper East Region, Ghana
- Opening
- Target: 2030, with a founding cohort of about 10 in Basic 7.
- Admissions
- Not yet open. Entry will be by entrance exam, skills survey and interview.