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Ghana’s new government will sack heads of schools if students fail examinations

According to Ghana's Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, school heads must justify their stay in their positions as policy makers of the schools.

Ghana's Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh

According to him, school heads must justify their stay in their positions, especially when students continue to perform poorly in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

"Any school head who superintends over a failure of over 90% cannot be allowed to continue operation without accounting to the Ghana Education Service (GES),” he said.

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The Minister made this known while addressing heads of Senior High Schools (SHS) in Kumasi as part of a two-day familiarization tour to the Ashanti Region.

At least 598 candidates who sat in the 2016 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) had their “entire results cancelled.”

WAEC said that 1,576 candidates had their subject results cancelled while some 13 candidates who had their entire results cancelled have also been “barred from taking any of the Council’s examinations for two years mainly for impersonation during the examination.”

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WAEC indicated that a total of 125,065 students obtained A1 to C6 in English Language, which is 53.19%, 59,725 (25.40%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 46,595 (19.82%) had F9.

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The statement said for Mathematics, 77,108 (32.83%) obtained A1-C6; 65,007 (27.68%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 89,477 (38.10%) had F9.

About 113,933 students obtained A1-C6 in Integrated Science which is 48.48%, 75,938 (32.32%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 42,519 (18.09%) had F9, WAEC added.

Even though WAEC said this year’s performance is a significant improvement over that of 2015, Nana Akufo-Addo, who was then the flabgearer of the New Patriotic Party said that the outcome of the examination is a reflection of the poor performance of the Mahama-led administration.

On the way forward, Dr Opoku Prempeh said the Ghana Education Service would support schools with all the materials they need adding that: "it is our hope that with the provision of support and management orientation that you are going to receive, heads and teacher will be able to guide their students to improve their performance in WASSCE 2017."

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