 She proceeded to an all-girls’ boarding school at Aburi, a town her grandfather had lived in.She attended the Aburi Women’s Teacher Training College (now the Presbyterian Women's College of Education) where she studied pedagogy and was one of two students in the school’s first batch in 1928.In 1946, Jane Clerk was among a select group of senior teachers who were awarded mid-career scholarships for further professional training abroad at the University of London's Institute of Education which today forms part of the University College London, where she earned an Associate Certificate in Education on completion of the eighteen-month course.