Bishop Herman College - Ghana

bishop herman college (biheco) is a boys-only second-cycle institution located at kpando in the volta region of ghana. it was established on 28 february 1952. it was the first secondary school established by the catholic church in the volta region. the school was named after a french catholic bishop, auguste herman. biheco was a private mission school when the first batch of bihecans completed their school certificate course, from 1952-1955. it was, however, absorbed into the public school system as a government assisted college in the same year, 1955. the school ran the only gce ordinary level programme until 1962 when the sixth form course was introduced allowing for the advanced level pre- university programme. like most of ghana’s secondary schools, biheco now runs the senior secondary school certificate programme since the gce ‘o’ and ‘a’ levels were phased out in 1996. biheco, runs senior high school programmes in general science, general arts, general agriculture and business. t