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The first female Mayor of Accra, Hon Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey has toured some Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) centres in the Accra Metropolis to offer words of encouragement to the candidates and cautioned them against malpractices. The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) who wa
The 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) is scheduled to start today, Monday, October 17 at 2,038 centres across the country. It is the first time schools and private candidates are sitting the exams. In a statement issued ahead of the exams, the West African Examination Council (WAE
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has wished all candidates of the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) well. The association urged them to justify the investments that have been made in them by their parents and the state in the examination. The examination starts tom
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But for the timely intervention of a truck driver, some final-year junior high school students of Adanwomase in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region couldn't have written their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) on Thursday. Videos showed over ten students aboard a Caterpillar
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The 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has commenced and as usual the media have been visiting examination centres across the country to report on proceedings at such centres. Over the years, media reports have often included the number of pregnant teenage girls writing the test. Fo
The African Foundation for Educational Development (AFFED), has asked authorities to punish invigilators who engage in acts of examination malpractice. AFFED says it has followed with keen interest the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the unwelcoming acts of teachers and in
Member of Parliament (MP) for Kintampo South in the Bono East Region, Alexander Gyan, has provided free transportation and meals for candidates sitting for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in his constituency. Some 1357 pupils made up of 706 males and 651 female writing at
The Member of Parliament for the Sissala West Constituency of the Upper West Region, Mohammed Adams Sukparu has donated educational materials to all candidates taking part in this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination in the Sissala West district. The donation made at the opening parade on
As part of measures to ensure that the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) is free of malpractices and leakages, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) says it has instituted some measures to halt cheating. One of the measures, according to WAEC, is the building of WAEC depots
Eight persons have been picked up by the police over their alleged involvement in the leakage of examination questions for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE). The Head of Legal at the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Rev. Victor Brew, revealed to journalists in Accr
One of the candidates writing this year’s ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), Richard Mensah, has died at Apremdo in the Western Region. He died on Wednesday, September 16 after writing the Monday and Tuesday papers. According to his grandmother, who was speaking in an interview
Teachers of candidates writing the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) have been barred from being at the examination centre. Supervisor at the Ghana Senior High School centre Frederick Kwaku Ofosu says the presence of teachers during examination period encourages interaction, wh
A total of 531,705 final-year junior high school (JHS) students from across the 16 regions of the country will be starting this year's Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) from today, Monday, September 14. The number comprises 269,419 males and 262,286 females. They will start with Englis
The sudden invasion of the Corona virus disease has in the last four months become the topical issue on global discussion table with it impact being felt by all nations in the world. Since December, last year, when the virus first broke out in China, it has spread throughout the world and brought al
Ninety-five percent of candidates who sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) this year have been successfully placed under the Computerized School Selection Placement System (CSSPS). These candidates were placed under the automatic placement system, self-placement and protocols f
The Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, has denied rumours that the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has been scrapped. He said the junior high school curriculum is yet to be reviewed. He made this known on Thursday, August 15 when he a
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
All Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in the North Gonja District of the Savannah Region are to receive one free meal and water as lunch for the next five days. Each of the 389 students in the district will today, June 10 enjoy rice and beans. District Chief Executive, Ellias
There has been a general increase in the number of candidates sitting this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE). From 509,824 in 2018, 517,332 are sitting the exams across the country. The exams started on Monday, June 10 with English Language and Religious and Moral Education. The
