QUALITY OF GHANA'S EDUCATION SUPERIOR-DPTY EDUC MIN.

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The Ministry of Education says the success story of Ghana in the West African Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, in recent times is more than enough demonstration of the quality of Ghana’s secondary education system. 

Ghana has produced the first best three candidates in the WASSCE in the last four years, with the Wesley Girls SHS winning the three top awards at the 2015 regional exam. 

The Deputy sector Minister in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education, Alex Kyereme made this known at a meeting with members of the Tepa Traditional Council in the Ashanti region.


Mr. Kyereme noted that the strong showing of Ghanaian candidates in the WASSCE refutes claims by a section of Ghanaians that the country is retrogressing in the quality of her secondary education. 

Mr. Kyereme noted that in an exam with many candidates from Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Ghana, it is extremely difficult for only one of the participating countries to win the top-most prizes for four consecutive years.

 According to him, what makes Ghana’s success story more outstanding is the fact that while the country has been presenting less than 500 thousand candidates for the same exam, her neighbour, Nigeria last year alone, presented about one-point-four million candidates to write the same Papers, that rather placed that country them in a pole position to claim the best prizes.


 Mr. Kyere said government is very much determined to protect Ghana’s integrity and record in the WASSCE. 
It is for this reason that a new mechanism known as ‘Deferential Profile’ has been developed to detect cheating in the by candidates in the Objective questions in WAEC organized examinations. 

The Deputy Educational Minister commended the stakeholders of education in the Ashanti region in particular for their concerted and hardwork that has culminated in the near parity in the boy-girl ratio in pre-tertiary schools’ enrollment.

 Mr. Kyereme singled out for praise this year’s number of candidates for the WASSCE. 

The region is presenting 62 thousand, 125 candidates from 177 Senior High Schools for the exam. 

The figure is made up of 31 thousand, 287 boys and 30 thousand, 838 girls with a difference of just 449 candidates between the boys and the girls. 

He noted however, that the total number of candidates presented by the region represents a 353 candidates or Zero-point-five-six per cent decrease from last year’s figure of 62 thousand, 472 candidates.
                                   

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