1 week ago Prudential transforms plastic waste into school desks for underserved communities

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/prudential-transforms-plastic-waste-into-school-desks-for-underserved-communities/Prudential Life Insurance Ghana donated 100 recycled plastic desks to Gbegbeyise Basic School on December 19, 2025, marking an expansion of corporate involvement in addressing Ghana’s waste crisis through practical solutions that benefit education. The project, implemented with Academic City University, converts bottles and sachets into classroom furniture, attempting to bridge the gap between environmental […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/prudential-transforms-plastic-waste-into-school-desks-for-underserved-communities/

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2 w. ago Galamsey and betting fuel rising school dropouts in Northern Ghana – Eduwatch

Education policy think tank Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has expressed concern over a growing education crisis in northern Ghana, disclosing that nearly 70 per cent of children aged 12 to 17 who are out of school have dropped out largely due to illegal mining and betting activities.

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2 w. ago Ghana Education crisis deepens as WASSCE Results expose systemic gaps

The provisional 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results, released by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), confront Ghana with a deepening crisis in secondary education. The catastrophic decline in core subjects, especially Core Mathematics and Social Studies, signals a failure to equip nearly half a million candidates with foundational knowledge. Only 48.73% of candidates achieved the minimum A1-C6 passes in Core Mathematics. These results confirm one of the poorest national performances recorded recently.

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2 w. ago AI, cheating, and collapsing reading habits: Ghana’s education system at a crossroads

Ghana’s education sector is facing a mounting crisis as the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools, rampant exam malpractice, and a sharp decline in reading culture converge to threaten learning outcomes nationwide. Experts warn that without urgent reforms, the country risks producing a generation of students who hold certificates but lack fundamental skills. Professor Stephen Adei, a prominent Ghanaian educationist, has described the situation as a reflection of a “moral decay that is eating into the fabric of our nation.” Speaking earlier this year, he noted that exam malpractice has become so normalised that many no longer see it as wrong.

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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4 w. ago WASSCE 2025 Failure Surge Reflects Systemic Education Crisis

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/wassce-2025-failure-surge-reflects-systemic-education-crisis/The dramatic increase in failure rates recorded in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) stems from deep institutional failures within Ghana’s education system, according to Dr. Peter Attafuah, Senior Education Advisor at Africa Education Watch. Speaking on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Monday, Dr. Attafuah identified poor student preparation, inadequate teaching capacity, […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/wassce-2025-failure-surge-reflects-systemic-education-crisis/

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4 w. ago Rising WASSCE Failures Reflect Deep Education System Problems

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/rising-wassce-failures-reflect-deep-education-system-problems/The sharp increase in outright failures recorded in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) stems from deep rooted structural challenges in Ghana’s education system rather than representing an isolated incident, according to an assessment expert. Professor Eric Anane, Director of Education at the University of Cape Coast’s Centre for Psychometric and Cognition, […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/rising-wassce-failures-reflect-deep-education-system-problems/

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4 w. ago 2025 WASSCE results: Nearly 1 out of 4 candidates failed Core Mathematics

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.

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4 w. ago 2025 WASSCE results: Nearly 1 out of 4 candidates failed Core Mathematics and Social Studies

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.

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