36 h. ago WASSCE decline reveals deep gaps, there’s need to overhaul education system – Franklin Cudjoe

President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, is urging a thorough reassessment of Ghana’s education framework in the wake of the significant slump in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results, especially in Core Mathematics and Social Studies.

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43 h. ago Examination Cheating Involves Teachers and Headmasters Says Bentil

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/examination-cheating-involves-teachers-and-headmasters-says-bentil/Examination malpractice in Ghana has become a coordinated systemic problem involving school authorities including teachers, headmasters and invigilators, threatening the credibility of national examinations, according to IMANI Africa Vice President Kofi Bentil. His comments on Saturday come as education stakeholders grapple with explanations for the steep decline in 2025 WASSCE performance and growing concerns about […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/examination-cheating-involves-teachers-and-headmasters-says-bentil/

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59 h. ago This Saturday on Newsfile: Petitions against the OSP, EC heads, and 2025 WASSCE results

This Saturday on Newsfile, we step into a pivotal moment for Ghana’s democracy, education, and natural-resource governance. Three national flashpoints, all demanding clarity, accountability, and bold conversation.

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59 h. ago Livestream: Newsfile discusses petitions against the OSP, EC heads, and 2025 WASSCE results

This Saturday on Newsfile, we step into a pivotal moment for Ghana’s democracy, education, and natural-resource governance. Three national flashpoints, all demanding clarity, accountability, and bold conversation.

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59 h. ago Playback: Newsfile discussed petitions against the OSP, EC heads, and 2025 WASSCE results

This Saturday on Newsfile, we step into a pivotal moment for Ghana’s democracy, education, and natural-resource governance. Three national flashpoints, all demanding clarity, accountability, and bold conversation.

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59 h. ago Limit mobile phone use in schools to improve student performance — Educationist on 2025 WASSCE results

Dr Abena Nyarkoa, Founder of the Nkunim Education Project, has called for restricted or no access to mobile phones for students in senior high schools across Ghana.

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3 d. ago Mahama demands answers over WASSCE decline, orders urgent review of examiners’ report

President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education to analyse the 2025 WASSCE examiners’ report to determine what went “disastrously wrong” after this year’s poor performance. Speaking at the National Launch of the STEMBox for Basic Schools, President Mahama attributed the decline in results to years of neglect […]

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3 d. ago Breaking: WASSCE 2025 Meltdown — Promiscuity, TikTok, and Poor Literacy Blamed for Mass Failures

Once upon a time in the Republic of Uncommon Sense, our WASSCE results glowed like a politician’s smile on a fresh campaign poster — polished, bright, and suspiciously perfect. For years, the grades rose like steam from hot tuo zaafi, rising even in schools where textbooks were rarer than affordable housing and laboratories were as mythical as dragons in Aburi Gardens.

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4 d. ago 2025 WASSCE: Invigilation induced fear – Minority says GES explanation raises bigger questions

The Minority in Parliament says the Ghana Education Service’s (GES) explanation for the sharp drop in the 2025 WASSCE results raises more troubling questions than answers.

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4 d. ago Embarrassing and troubling – Minority shreds GES over 2025 WASSCE defence

The Minority in Parliament has launched a blistering attack on the Ghana Education Service (GES) over its response to the sharp decline in the 2025 WASSCE results, describing the Service’s justification as “embarrassing and troubling.”

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4 d. ago ‘We built it, they broke it’ – Minority blasts NDC over declining WASSCE results

The Minority in Parliament has accused the NDC government of dragging Ghana’s education sector backwards, following what it describes as a shocking dip in the 2025 WASSCE results.

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4 d. ago 2025 WASSCE scores collapse — Minority warns of deepening crisis in education

The Minority in Parliament says the sharp fall in the 2025 WASSCE results points to a deepening crisis in Ghana’s education sector.

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4 d. ago Free SHS has nothing to do with poor WASSCE performance – Miracles Aboagye

An aide to former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is calling for a more informed national discussion on the causes of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) performance.

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4 d. ago Drop in WASSCE 2025 performance – Reality check or victory for integrity?

Last week, the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) released the 2025 results, sparking intense debate across the country. After years of impressive pass rates under the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy, this year’s results show a sharp decline in performance. Pass rates in Core Mathematics pass rates fell from 66.86% in 2024 to 48.73%, while Social Studies dropped from 71.53% to 55.82%.

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5 d. ago 2025 WASSCE: GES must apologise to parents; failures expose collapse of academic interventions – Adutwum’s Spokesperson

Spokesperson for Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Yaw Opoku Mensah, has strongly criticised the Ghana Education Service (GES) following its recent press release on the 2025 WASSCE results, describing the statement as “a shameful political attempt to cover up leadership failure.”

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5 d. ago WASSCE results reflect reality on the ground – Sissala East MP

Member of Parliament for the Sissala East Constituency, Mohammed Issah Bataglia, has stated that the abysmal performance in the 2025 WASSCE reflects the true state of teaching and learning across many senior high schools in the country.

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5 d. ago Weakening parental supervision partly driving WASSCE performance decline — Nana Yaa Jantuah warns

Presidential Staffer Nana Yaa Jantuah has expressed deep concern over the declining performance of students in the 2025 WASSCE, stressing that weak parental supervision is a major contributor to the trend.

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5 d. ago 2025 WASSCE: Candidates struggle with the use of vocabulary in English Language

Mr John Kapi, Director of Public Affairs at the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has revealed that Chief Examiners observed a significant challenge among candidates in the correct use of English vocabulary.

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6 d. ago Strict invigilation behind reduced cheating in 2025 WASSCE, says Eduwatch Boss

The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has credited the marked drop in examination malpractice during the 2025 WASSCE to the far stricter monitoring regime introduced by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

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6 d. ago Stop dragging WASSCE results into partisan debates – Eduwatch cautions politicians

Africa Education Watch has criticised the increasing politicisation of the 2025 WASSCE results, warning that it diverts attention from the deeper structural problems undermining educational performance across the country.

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