GHANA- Monday, July 20, 2020,/ https://africanpostonline.com/ Following the President’s directive for all final year students to return to school to complete the exit exams, the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) commences today, Monday, July 20, 2020.
Over 325,000 candidates in various Senior High Schools across the country are set to write the final exams.
Candidates this year are the first batch of the Free SHS policy implemented in 2017.
According to the West African Examination Council (WAEC) timetable, Visual Arts students will begin the examination today, with theory continuing from August 3, 2020, to September 5, 2020. The examination will span for five weeks and will be ended by Principles of Accounting and Technical drawing.
Ex-President John Mahama has sent his best wishes to the candidates. “Best wishes to our gallant WASSCE candidates who are beginning their exams today. This is certainly not the best of times to sit for an exit examination, but bear in mind that you have made yourself, your parents and the entire nation are proud for your outstanding courage to write at this time.
Ghana has for successive years been known and celebrated for producing the best WASSCE results in West Africa, and that is why, you, even before stepping into the examination hall, are already our heroes. Nothing can change that.
Be assured that my prayers and that of over 30 million Ghanaians will stay with you every single day until the examination is over. Please remember to observe the #COVID19 protocols before, during and after the exams.
Good luck.” He wrote.
Various senior high schools have recorded cases of the coronavirus since government’s directive to all final year students to return to school. Accra Girl’s Senior High School which started with only six cases, as at July 13, 2020, had recorded 55 cases of staff and students.
Other Senior High Schools like Archbishop Porter Girls SHS, Mpraeso SHS, Konongo Wesley SHS amongst other followed suit.
There have been several calls to the government by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), and various teacher unions like the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT-GH) to close down schools due to the rise in cases.
However, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Kwasi Opoku- Amankwa has called the move to close down “disastrous”.
The Deputy Health Minister Dr Okoe Boye has said however that government would take action when cases recorded in a Senior High School surpass 15 per cent. He says that the government has the situation under control.
Source: Mawuena Azumah -African Post Online
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