The Ministry of Education has stated that there were no leakages in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination(WASSCE). Previous exams conducted by the examination body recorded massive leakages which subsequently led to the cancellation of some of the papers. The Minister, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang at … Read more
Private legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has given the West African Examinations Council a two-week ultimatum to release the withheld results of 85 schools found to have cheated in the 2016 WASSCE or prepare for a legal battle. Speaking at a media briefing on Monday, Maurice Ampaw accused WAEC of shirking responsibility by blaming students for … Read more
“Every person should have the opportunity to good quality education. They must be equipped with the necessary resources to enable them to excel in their chosen field of study or discipline regardless of where they live”. ~ Dominic Yooku deGraft Aidoo The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) 2016 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) … Read more
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) is an entirely non profiting Education body which comprises of Educationalist who are in charge of conducting and supervising examinations in an unbiased manner across the sub region of West Africa; which includes , Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia respectively. WAEC was established since 1952, and has encountered … Read more
Some 80 per cent of Ghanaians across the country have access to power, President John Mahama has said. The feat puts Ghana’s power generation second only to South Africa in sub-saharan Africa, he added. Even though the country endured some four years of power paralysis which saw 24 hours off, 12 hours on load management … Read more
President John Mahama has said conscious efforts must be made at assisting weak students in the country so they could achieve at least, a credit mark, during examinations. Speaking at the Oguaa Fetu festival at Cape Coast in the Central region, the president called on chiefs and people of the region to probe the seeming … Read more
Results of the candidates who sat for the 2016 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be released from September 12, officials have announced. A total of 461,013 candidates from 14,267 public and private junior high schools wrote the exams that was conducted by the West African Examination Council [WAEC] between June 13 and 17, 2016. … Read more
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has entreated its members to be more proactive and double their efforts to reverse the high rate of failures in the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The association which expressed discontent over the low pass rate in the just-ended WASSCE, admonished teachers to be “diligent … Read more
The very moment my mother the Koko seller at Kasoa called me last week to watch our very own Bole Bamboi Presido modeling in a military uniform as he proved to the whole world that he was indeed the CEO of the Armed Forces of Ghana, I knew the battle line for the 2016 elections … Read more
We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there – Howard Gardner, Psychologist The road to better quality and transformative public education … Read more
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) is staying with its new strategy to fly examination questions papers to the examination centres in the upcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), in a bid to avoid the recurrent leakages. The BECE has been scheduled for June 13-17, 2016 “The papers have already been printed outside this country. … Read more
President John Mahama has described as disappointing the reported leakage of examination papers in the ongoing Senior High school certificate examination organised by the West African Examination Council. According to him, WAEC after a similar incident last year, assured government of its readiness to introduce reforms to curb the exam malpractices. WAEC has conceded that … Read more
Head of West African Examination Council (WAEC), Very Reverend Dr. Sam Nmai Ollenu has denied media reports the 2016 West African Senior Secondary Certificate (WASSCE) papers had been leaked. If anything, he said, some of the students had “foreknowledge” about the papers before going into the examination hall. Drawing a distinction between a leaked paper … Read more
Seventy per cent of candidates have not failed (Accra, GNA) – Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the Education Minister, said it was not true that about 70 per cent of the 2014 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidates failed. She said in 2013, the Ministry presented over 460,000 candidates from the four-year and three-year … Read more
Only 3.7 percent of Ghanaian students who wrote this year’s West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations failed, the country’s Education Minister has said. This means 96.3 percent of the candidates passed. A total of 68,062 out of 242,162 students who sat for the final examination are eligible for admission to tertiary institutions. The figure represent … Read more