[ad_1] Educationist Prof Stephen Adei says the decline in the 2025 WASSCE results may be due to far tighter exam supervision, which he believes has exposed long-standing weaknesses in Ghana’s education system. Speaking on the Joy FM Super Morning Show on Monday, December 1, Prof Adei explained that stronger monitoring may have limited widespread cheating…
[ad_1] The West African Examinations Council has released provisional results for candidates who sat the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. WAEC announced the results on Saturday, November 29, 2025, and warned that subject results for 6,295 candidates were cancelled for sending foreign materials. The results are available online on the Ghana WAEC portal….
[ad_1] The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has confirmed a national education concern with the release of the provisional WASSCE 2025 results, revealing a worrying surge in the outright failure rate (Grade F9) across all four core subjects compared to the 2024 results. An analysis of the official data released shows that the percentage of…
[ad_1] A 20-year-old mechanic, Akwasi Agyeman, has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the Asante Bekwai circuit court for attacking and raping a pregnant candidate in the ongoing West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The victim, a 20-year-old student of the Bekwai SDA Senior High School, was eight months pregnant when the…
[ad_1] The Minority in Parliament is calling for an investigation into an alleged GH¢68.5 million spent on photocopying past questions for WASSCE candidates in 2020 and 2021. The Ministry of Education allegedly incurred a cost of GH¢33.6 million in 2020 and over GH¢34 million in 2021 for this purpose, both through single-source procurement. Speaking to…
[ad_1] The Ministry of Education (MoE) has strongly refuted recent claims made by former President John Dramani Mahama regarding lax supervision and collusion in the West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE). In a statement released on Friday, the MoE labeled Mahama’s comments as a “calculated attempt to downplay the great strides made by…
[ad_1] The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has strongly criticized the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, following his comments on the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) results. During his country tour, Mr. Mahama discredited the examination results, pointing to malpractices and students conniving with teachers to cheat. In…
[ad_1] The Ministry of Education has strongly rebuffed former President John Dramani Mahama’s recent claims of lax supervision and collusion in the West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE). In a statement released on Friday, the Ministry labelled Mahama’s comments as a “calculated attempt to downplay the great strides made by the Ministry in improving…
[ad_1] This Saturday’s edition of JoyNews’ Newsfile will be delving into the week’s most pressing issues and events. The analysis programme will navigate through the highs and lows of recent news, ranging from the outstanding performance of students in the WASSCE examinations, which the government has touted as a success of the Free SHS policy…
[ad_1] Tyrone Marhguy In a remarkable turn of events, Tyrone Marhguy, one of the students initially denied admission to Achimota School due to his dreadlocks, has emerged as a top-performing student in the West Africa Senior Secondary School Examination (WASSCE). Despite facing numerous challenges along the way, Marhguy, a pure science student, attained the…
