In September 2017, when the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government began the Free Senior High School (SHS) programm with only first-year students, some political analysts questioned the essence of ‘Free SHS’ as it only benefitted first-year students and not all SHS students. Prior to the 2016 election, when then-candidate Nana Akufo-Addo promised the Free SHS policy, it was believed …
The supervisor of Kaleo Senior High School Examination Centre for the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has applauded the students for being disciplined and law-abiding following the examination instructions given by WAEC. He was interacting with the media after the English and Religious and Moral Education papers at the Examination Centre at Kaleo in the Nadowli-Kaleo District. According to …
Freda Prempeh, Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection has warned the 517,332 candidates writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) nationwide to desist from examination malpractices to avoid cancellation of results. She expressed the hope that all major stakeholders in the education sector would do their possible best to guarantee credible results of the BECE. In a …
A 14-year-old Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidate is reported missing in Koforidua in the Eastern Region, missing four papers. Valerian Osei-Nyarko who visited his father in Koforidua, was put in a bus last Saturday to return to Kumasi where he has been staying with the aunt, to begin the BECE but was said to have got down from bus …
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has assured all candidates and stakeholders within the Chereponi area that all the necessary steps had been taken to ensure maximum security and safety during the examinations. It also called on the security agencies to help deal decisively with all those who would attempt to undermine the integrity of the exercise and to jeopardize the …
A total of 2,330 candidates are writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Hohoe, in the Volta region. Out of the number, 1,181 are boys and 1,149, girls from 78 public and private schools. The candidates are writing the examination at eight centres in the Municipality. At Alavanyo Wudidi L/A Junior High School, one of the five examination …
A female candidate of the on-going Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), brave the odds and took her six week old baby along to write the examination which began nationwide on Monday. The candidate (name withheld) a student of one of the Junior High School in the Sekyere-Central District of Ashanti, was among the 1,144 candidates who registered to take part …
Some 62 foreign students have been stopped from sitting the Basic Education Certificate Examination underway across the country. The students, Nigerians and Togolese, were stopped after authorities within the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region found, a Ghanaian headteacher had allegedly registered them for the one-week exams. Innocent Agblevor, the headteacher of a private school, Kekeli Preparatory school in …
Theodosia Jackson, the Principal of Jackson College of Education has advised this year’s Basic Education Certificate candidates to refrain from any form of examination malpractice to avoid cancellation of papers. The veteran educationists further admonished them to aim at earning their certificates honestly and on merit. She gave the advice at a press briefing in Kumasi to exhort the candidates …
Mrs Evelyn Naa Adjeley Twum-Gyamrah, the Municipal Chief Executive of Ledzekuku Krowor Municipal Assembly (LeKMA), has called on the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates to avoid all acts of exam malpractices. She commended some of the candidates in the schools she visited in the Municipality for their comportment during the English paper and urged them to continue with the …
