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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The Council, in a statement, said it will soon dispatch the results to the various schools and candidates can contact the heads of their schools for their results. However, the entire results of 48,855 candidates have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractices detected during and after the conduct of the examination. Top Stories On Myjoyonline.com(29-7-19) These misconducts include sending foreign materials such as prepared notes, printed materials and mobile phones to the examination hall. Others are collusion among candidates and planned cheating which occurred with the connivance of some supervisors and school authorities. The 2019 figure represents an increase from last

The West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) result an official information that only the WAEC and its staff have access to until it is officially released by the council has made its way into the public domain. Newsghana24.com has hidden some information on the picture taken from the source to respect the privacy of candidates. The results out in the public domain has over 100 candidates from two schools and names of two examiners. WASSCE 2019 Leaked results The official document, bearing the logo of WAEC and the list of name of candidates and their grades obtained were shared via whatsapp. Some of the lists have the names of schools that sat for the WASSCE 2019 as well as the examiner who marked the scripts. WAEC must wake up from the comma and resurrect quickly. At least the results of one big private school is out there. They boast as being the place where results are made and students hardly fail. They have branches scattered acro

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has approved some subjects for study leave without pay for the 2019/2020 academic year. In a press statement issued to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo, Head of Public Relations of the Service, the approved subjects applied to both teaching and non-teaching staff. The subjects include Physical Education, Information Communication Technology, French, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics and Integrated Science. ADVERTISEMENT Others are Special Education, Guidance and Counselling, Ghanaian Language, Early Childhood, Visual Arts, History, Geography, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Technical Programmes, among others. Subjects such as supply and logistics, laboratory technician, library information studies are also included. The Statement, however, indicated that technical programmes did not include vocational programmes. Source:  ghananewsagency.org

Superintendent Sheila Buckman, Director of Police Public Affairs ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! The Ghana Police Service has cautioned Junior High School (JHS) students who have just completed the Basic Educate Certificate Examination (BECE) to be guarded in celebrating their achievement. A total of 517,332 students, comprising 263,616 males and 253,716 females sat for the exam which begun on Monday, 10 June and ended today, Friday, 14 June 2019. The police administration, in a statement, said: “It has been observed from previous years that some JHS graduates indulge in drug and alcohol abuse and other acts that lead to crimes and injuries, and in some cases, death at the beaches among others.” ADVERTISEMENT “Beach revellers, night club patrons and such others are to be careful to avoid injuries and breaching the law,” the statement added. Parents and guardians have also been a

Principal of Jackson College of Education, Theodosia Jackson ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! 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 to a sterling performance in their first ever external examination. ADVERTISEMENT The Principal who doubles as counsellor asked parents to create a congenial atmosphere at home for their wards and lighten chores during the examination period. "Parents should reduce household chores to enable their wards have enough time to prepare for each day's battle," Mrs. Jackson advised.

File photo ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! Nine candidates, three males and six females failed to report for the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Twene Amanfo Senior High/Technical School (TASTECH) cluster of examination centers in Sunyani. The examination supervisors could however not assign reasons for the candidates not turning up when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited the ‘TASTECH A’, ‘TASTECH B’ ‘TASTECH C’ and ‘TASTECH D’ centres on Wednesday. A total of 1,180 candidates that comprised 594 girls and 586 boys wrote the examination at the four centres. ADVERTISEMENT Mrs. Evelyn Konadu Boaten, one of the Supervisors told the GNA that the examination commenced without any hitch. A Community Police Assistant was assigned to maintain law and order at each of the Centres. Meanwhile, a total of 49,127 candidates comprising 25,508 boys and 23

File photo ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has been advised to do all in its power to ensure a leakage-free Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) this year and beyond. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, The Very Reverend Solomon Kwasi Nyantakyi –Adomako, Superintendent Minister of the Bethel Methodist church at Sefwi Wiawso, lamented that cancellation of examination papers due to leakages and other malpractices, destroyed the zeal in students and impacted negatively on their future academic and other social pursuits. He urged all stakeholders to play their respective roles effectively to ensure an accident-free examination to give a better direction to the future of the students. ADVERTISEMENT Rev. Nyantakyi- Adomako also urged the candidates to be bold, courageous and fight a good fight, as fear bred fail

Valerian Osei-Nyarko ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! 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 at the Koforidua station.  His father, Joseph Osei-Nyarko told the host of Takoradi-based Connect FM morning show, Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson that the boy has been living with his aunt in Kumasi since the death of the wife.  According to the father, the boy, a pupil of Unique Standard Preparatory School in Atonsu, only visited him in Koforidua during vacations and went back to Kumasi whenever school reopens.  “He came to visit me on Thursday, May 30. On Saturday, I personally accompanied