Analysis of this year’s performance of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidates reveals that the average performance of the candidates is the best, when compared with WASSCE results within the past six years, with all four core subjects (English, Mathematics, Integrated Science and Social Studies) recording above 50 per cent pass marks. […]
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WASSCE: President Akufo-Addo directs Education Minister to reconsider ban of 14 students
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has directed the Minister for Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, to engage the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reconsider its decision to ban some fourteen (14) dismissed final year senior high school students from taking the ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). A statement signed by the […]
Bright Appiah pushes for continuous assessment to be used to award BECE and WASSCE grades
Child Rights International (CRI), a child-centred organisation, has called on the Ministry of Education (MoE) to consider using the continuous assessment method as an alternative to award certification or grade students who are going to write BECE and WASSCE in the absence of written examinations at the end of their school term. The move, according […]
2019 WASSCE begins today, candidates to be verified to curb impersonation
The 2019 edition of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) begins today. Final year Senior High School (SHS) students are expected to take part in the exams in various centers across the country. The examination is commencing with Basketry 3 project work. Per the timetable, the first core paper which is the English […]
UER: Frafra indigenes push for inclusion of farefari language as an examinable subject at BECE and WASSCE levels
Some Frafra indigenes in the upper East region have accused the Ghana Education Service over a deliberate refusal to make the farefari language an examinable subject at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). According to the Frafra People, several attempts in the past including streets protest embarked upon to mount pressure on the Education Service […]