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The MP also donated 100 bags of cement to victims of the Wednesday, June 3 floods along the Nima drains.      The Mathematical sets intended to aid candidates of the Basic Education Certificate Examination in all junior high schools, was presented on behalf of the MP by Alhaji Williams Olabodi, Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic… Read More: East Ayawaso MP donates exams materials to candidates »

Cape Coast, June 14, GNA – The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has installed Closed Circuit Television cameras at vantage points on campus to monitor and check criminal activities as part of measures to ensure maximum security. Professor Domwini D. Kuupole, Vice Chancellor who made this known at the weekend said security on campus is… Read More: UCC beefs up security on campus »

Tamale, June 15, GNA – Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, Deputy Northern Regional Minister, has encouraged candidates writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) to remain confident and approach the examinations with determination to enable them come out with flying colours. Alhaji Fuseini gave the encouragement when he toured some examination centres, including Vittin Senior High… Read More: Minister encourages BECE candidates to do well »

The High School Creative Challenge is an event organized by the Innovation Laboratory, a research initiative at the CUCG, aimed at helping to discover and develop creative arts talents in students. Mr. Edward Atwum Anane, the CUCG Coordinator for the programme told the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Sunyani that the event created  … Read More: University launches programme to unearth talents of SHS students »

He said the situation where some students resorted to consulting occults and other means to pass examinations, did not augur well for them, and in the end ruined their lives. Overseer Kwabia gave the advice when the church held special prayers for students who are taking this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in Accra… Read More: Clergyman urges students to take lessons seriously »

The examination conducting body had introduced security mail bags with tag numbers, a padlock and three keys that would be kept by three persons at different strategic locations. Mr Patrick Sumailar Wayoe, Sekondi Controller of WAEC, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the security measures were taken to curb occasional leakage of… Read More: WAEC tightens security of BECE examination materials »

Nana Osei Baffoe Dickson, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Tailors and Dressmakers Association (GNTDA), said the industry which currently employs not less than 50, 000 people, had not yet been developed to acceptable standards. “The Chinese and other foreigners are gradually taking over the industry, as they have more sophisticated machines and technical… Read More: Association calls for government’s investment in Tailoring »

The girl, who has been suffering from a stroke condition for the past one month, did not heed the advice of her doctors not to sit for the exams and showed up at the exams centre at the Tema Senior High School. All efforts from Mrs Bossman Adotevi, the Headmistress of the First Baptist School,… Read More: 15 year old stroke patient sits for BECE »

Forty-seven public schools in the Metropolis, registered 3,494 candidates, whilst the remaining 3,496candidates were from 109 private schools. Mr Azeriya G. Ayeriga, the Tema Metropolitan Education Directorate’s Public Relations Officer, told the Ghana News Agency that 25 centres were being used for the one-week examination, which started on Monday, with English Language and Religious and… Read More: 6,990 candidates write BECE in Tema »

Mr Emmanuel Karfo, the Supervisor for the Examination Centre, said all the 253 pupils, who registered to take their papers at the centre were present. He said the Centre has so far recorded no incidence, and that, a girl, who reported with a stomach ache before the English Paper 2, was given first aid, which… Read More: About 253 pupils begin BECE exams at Odorgonno SHS »