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  • WASSCE begins smoothly in Techiman Municipality

    The West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) on Monday began smoothly in the Techiman Municipality amidst the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

    The Techiman Senior High School (SHS) happened to be the only school that actually commenced the examination with the practical aspects of Visual Arts because, that is the only SHS out of seven in the Municipality that offered that subject on the examination time table for the day.

    Thirty-nine candidates comprising two girls and 37 boys offered the subject, Mr. Samuel Kwaku Donyina, the Assistant Headmaster, Academic, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Techiman in the Bono East Region.

    Mr Donyina said generally the Management of the School had been enforcing strict observation of and compliance with the directives and protocols against the spread of the COVID-19 and assured the candidates of their safety before, during and after the examination.

    He disclosed that the institution had presented 693 candidates, saying parents and guardians must not entertain fears about the health and safety of their children and wards, because the school had prepared adequately to protect them from contracting the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Other SHSs the GNA visited included Our Lady of Mount Carmel Girls and Kesse Basahyina SHSs that had prepared 249 and 119 candidates respectively to write the examination.

    Mr Richard Skyere, the Techiman Municipal Examination Officer, also in another interview with the GNA, said the Municipal Education Directorate was closely monitoring for proper supervision of the examination for its successful completion.

    Source: GNA

  • 313,837 SHS finalists start writing WASSCE today across Ghana

    The West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is set to begin today, July 20, 2020.

    It commences amid concerns about health protocols in place to ensure containment of the spread of the novel coronavirus.

    The timetable which was submitted to the Ministry of Education indicates that the examination will begin today, with Project Work for Visual Arts candidates, while the theory papers will start from August 3, 2020, until September 5, 2020, when the examination will be brought to an end with Principles of Cost Accounting and Technical Drawing.

    In all, 60 subjects, made up of four core and 56 elective subjects, have been made available to the candidates.

    It will last for a period of five-weeks.

    The subjects cover the seven programmes offered at senior high schools (SHS), namely, General Arts, General Science, Business, Agricultural Science, Visual Arts, Home Economics and Technical Skills.

    Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo has extended his best wishes to the candidates.

    The President in a statement admonished the importance of education to development highlighting the need to ensure continuous education in the midst of Covid-19.

    “I send best wishes to the three hundred and thirteen thousand, eight hundred and thirty-seven (313,837) final year Senior High School students, who will from Monday, 20th July, take the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE),” he said via Twitter on Sunday.

     

    Source: Myjoyonline.com  

  • All you need to know as WASSCE begins today

    The West African Examination Council earlier this month released a new timetable for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates.

    The new timetable was released after the West African Examination Council (WAEC) got approval from the Ministry of Education.

    The examination starts from today, Monday, July 20, 2020, with Project Work for Visual Arts candidates, while the theory papers will start from August 3, 2020, until September 5, 2020, when the five-week-long examination will be brought to an end with Principles of Cost Accounting and Technical Drawing.

    In all, 60 subjects, made up of four core and 56 elective subjects, have been made available to the candidates.

    The subjects cover the seven programmes offered at Senior High School (SHS), namely, General Arts, General Science, Business, Agricultural Science, Visual Arts, Home Economics, and Technical.

    A total of 375,737 candidates, made up of 187,574 males and 188,163 females will take the examination.

    The Ashanti Region has the highest number of candidates with 87,295 candidates; followed by Eastern Region with 56,467 candidates.

    See the full 2020 timetable for the WASSCE for school candidates below.

    Source: www.ghanaweb.com

  • National PTAs demand immediate return home of all WASSCE, BECE students

    The National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTAs) has asked government to send all school children awaiting to write their final examinations home.

    “In the current circumstances, the children are psychologically unstable and would therefore, not be of sound mind to write the WASSCE and BECE examinations and come out successfully,” a decision taken at a National Executive Consultative Meeting indicated.

    “We, therefore, suggest that these examinations be postponed till the situation is brought under control.”, a statement by the association issued Monday, July 13 said.

    The association cited among other things the inadequacy of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and the non-availability of same in some schools as some of the reasons they feels the children are not safe in school.

    Source: 3 News

  • WAEC timetable: 2020 WASSCE begins July 20

    The West African Examination Council has released a fresh timetable for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.

    This comes after WAEC submitted the timetable to the Ministry of Education and the examination would commence from Monday, July 20, 2020, with Project Work for Visual Arts candidates, while the theory papers will start from August 3, 2020, until September 5, 2020, when the five-week-long examination will be brought to an end with Principles of Cost Accounting and Technical Drawing.

    Mrs. Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, the Head of the Ghana National Office of WAEC, said the dateline for the WASSCE had already been decided on with the Ghana Education.

    In all, 60 subjects, made up of four core and 56 elective subjects, have been made available to the candidates.

    The subjects cover the seven programmes offered at senior high school (SHS), namely, General Arts, General Science, Business, Agricultural Science, Visual Arts, Home Economics, and Technical.

    Ahead of releasing the timetable, WAEC had been concerned about the number of rogue website operators who were peddling false information from fake websites flooded with fake timetables, fake examination question papers, and other examination-related information.

    Mrs. Addy-Lamptey in an interview with the Daily Graphic cautioned candidates preparing for the WASSCE, to be wary of operators of such rogue websites.

    She said ever since the President announced guidelines for the gradual reopening of schools for final-year students, such websites which had initially disappeared had been resurfacing.

    Mrs. Addy-Lamptey described those websites and their activities as the greatest threat to the credibility of the certificates issued by WAEC and, therefore, advised candidates to “desist from dealing with such websites and feel free to contact WAEC offices or contact the WAEC website: www.waecgh.org, for any assistance”.

    Some of the rogue websites, as identified by WAEC, include “WAEC Exams Room”, “WAEC Seekers Exams Leaks”, “WAEC Past Examination”, “WASSCE Results Upgrade WAEC for 2020”, “West Africa Exams Links” and “WAEC Secret Room”, “WAEC Spark WAEC”, “Ghana Education News”, “WAEC Update”, “WAEC 2020”, “WAEC Authentic Hub”, “WAEC Ghana” and “WAEC Union”.

    The Head of the Ghana National Office of the WAEC asked for the collective support of parents, invigilators, supervisors, and all those who had a role to play in the writing of the WASSCE to help ensure that “we have a credible examination.”

    Source: pulse.com.gh

  • 2020 WASSCE begins on August 3 for all WAEC member countries

    The West African Examination Council (WAEC) will on August 3 commence the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for all five English-speaking West African countries.

    This was revealed by the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwah in an interview monitored by ABC News.

    Prior to the changes in directive, WAEC was supposed to conduct an independent WASSCE for Ghanaian candidates this year as a result of the outbreak of the coronavirus, which led to the closure of schools in the other WAEC member countries.

    However, that has been changed and the exams will now be conducted in all five countries; that is Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia.

    According to Prof. Amankwa, this is a step in a right direction because government was thinking of how to name the independent exams Ghana would conduct and also feared the troubles that might emanate if other member countries accuse WAEC of setting easy questions for Ghanaian students.

    However, that fear has been allayed since all member countries will now be writing the same exams.

    He noted that, “the whole West Africa, I mean the 5-member countries have bought into our plan so now all five countries will do the WAEC exams like we used to. The exams will start on the 3rd of August. So we thank the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh for making this fruitful.

    WAEC is therefore set to release a fresh timetable for the 2020 WASSCE which will start from August 3 to September 5, 2020.

    Source: ABC News

  • Final year student dies in car crash on way back to school

    A motor vehicle accident on the Obogu-Banso road near Juaso in the Asante Akyem South District of the Ashanti Region has claimed the life of a female WASSCE candidate.

    Esther Nyamekye, 23, a student of Ofoase Senior High Technical School at Juaso, was killed in the accident at about 15:00 GMT on Tuesday, June 23.

    She was part of four occupants of a Chevrolet Matiz Taxi cab with registration number GR 5188 18 while returning to school to prepare for her exit exams —after spending nearly four months at home following a Covid-19 shutdown.

    Police said the suspect driver named as Evans Asare, 26, lost control of the vehicle on reaching a spot near the Banso Health Center.

    The vehicle reportedly veered off the road and summersaulted into a nearby bush, police said in a statement.

    The victims were rescued by locals who rushed to the scene minutes after the incident. They were rushed to the Juaso Government Hospital where Elizabeth Nyamekye, was pronounced dead on arrival.

    The suspect driver, a 13-year-old boy and a 43-year-old man named as Kofi Wiafe were also admitted at the same hospital after they sustained minor injuries, police said.

    The badly damaged vehicle had been towed from the accident scene by the police who told Dailymailgh.com that an investigation has commenced.

    Tributes are already pouring in from friends and sympathizers, especially students of Ofoase Senior High Technical School where the victim, until her death, was a school chaplain.

    Her body has since been deposited at the Stewards Mortuary at Yawkwei, near Konongo for preservation and autopsy, a statement from the police said.

    Source: Daily Mail

  • Coronavirus: WAEC to organise independent WASSCE for Ghana alone

    Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the Minister of Information, has said the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has indicated its readiness to organise an independent West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for Ghanaian candidates due to the threat of the Coronavirus pandemic.

    In response to the growing health concern about the COVID-19, WAEC in March, which comprises of Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, decided to put on hold the conduct of WASSCE for candidates, earlier scheduled to commence on April 6, 2020.

    Schools and universities are to be re-opened for final year students from Monday, June 15, 2020.

    President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a televised address to the nation on Sunday, May 31, 2020, said final year students in junior high, senior high, and universities can resume classes and lectures ahead of the conduct of their respective final examinations.

    “Indeed, final year university students are to report to their universities on 15th June, final year senior high school (SHS 3) students together with SHS 2 gold track students on 22nd June and final-year junior high school (JHS 3) students on 29th June,” he stated.

    The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in an interview on Accra based Citi FM, when asked on how WASSCE candidates in Ghana alone were going to take their exams after WAEC suspended the exams for the entire West African region, he said the examination body would provide support for countries that would want to organise their independent examinations.

    The Minister explained that because Ghana had been able to bring the disease under control, it would organise the exams for its final year students with the support of WAEC.

     

    Source: pulse.com.gh

  • Coronavirus: WASSCE put on hold until further notice

    The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has suspended the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) timetable until further notice.

    The examination body further directed that the conduct of WASSCE candidates be put on hold until further notice.

    A statement issued said the directives “will be reviewed” when the outbreak of the pandemic coronavirus improves.

    “Kindly note the information for further action and communicate the directives to the Ministry of Education and the general public in your country,” the statement signed by E. K. Myers Ag. Head, IED for the Registrar said.

    About coronavirus

    Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans.

    Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Detailed investigations found that SARS-CoV was transmitted from civet cats to humans and MERS-CoV from dromedary camels to humans. Several known coronaviruses are circulating in animals that have not yet infected humans.

    Common signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death.

    Standard recommendations to prevent infection spread include regular hand washing, covering mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing, thoroughly cooking meat and eggs. Avoid close contact with anyone showing symptoms of respiratory illness such as coughing and sneezing.

    Source: rainbowradioonline.com

     

     

  • WAEC cautions public against fake remedial virtual schools

    The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has asked the public to be cautious of some remedial and virtual schools that are promising to register candidates for the school edition of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

    The council said the WASSCE for school candidates was exclusive to final year students of recognized public and private senior high schools (SHS) who had undergone three years of education and not those who desired to re-sit the exams.

    Read: Purchasing WASSCE past questions for SHS students wrong Minority

    A statement issued by the Public Affairs Officer of WAEC National Office, Winifred Ampiaw said the examination had a 30 per cent continuous assessment component.

    It said persons who registered through the remedial and virtual schools did so at their own risk as the council would match the data of all candidates who register for the WASCCE for school candidates, 2020 with existing information in its database.

    “Candidates who are not bona fide students of recognised public and private SHS are regarded as unqualified candidates and would have their registration nullified”, it said.

     

    Source: theghanareport.com