Angry Parents And Students Besiege Kumasi WAEC Office To Demand Release Of Withheld WASSCE Results

Angry Parents And Students Besiege Kumasi WAEC Office To Demand Release Of Withheld WASSCE Results

  • Some parents and students trooped to the West African Examinations Council office in Kumasi because of some grievances
  • They are demanding the release of withheld results from the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination
  • The affected students are mostly from T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School, with over 2,000 students from the school said to have been affected

A group of upset parents and students besieged the Kumasi office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) demanding the release of withheld results from the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

Joy News reported that the affected students, mostly from T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School, are unable to proceed with university admissions due to the withheld results.

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Parents And Students at the Kumasi WAEC office to demand the release of withheld WASSCE results. Source: Myjoyonline
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Reports indicate that over 2,000 students from the school have been affected.

According to the parents, WAEC had sent messages instructing their wards to report to the regional office to verify whether they had engaged in any form of malpractice during the exams.

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The parents insist that the delay in releasing the results is jeopardising their children's academic futures.

They have urged WAEC to expedite the process and make their final decision promptly to prevent further disruptions in the students' education.

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Tertiary institutions started releasing admissions for the 2024/2025 academic year earlier in January.

WASSCE results were released on December 30 after a delay caused by government debts.

Examination cheating led to the cancellation of the subject results of 4,108 candidates.

WAEC results were supposed to be released between December 9, 2024, and December 15, 2024. This delayed admissions to public universities. The objective cards were expected to be scanned in November 2024.

The council had said it needed the money owed to it to repair the faulty scanners. Going into December 2024, WAEC was owed GH¢118 million by the government, which hampered its operations.

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YEN.com.gh reported that the Ghana Education Service announced the dates for the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the WASSCE for school candidates.

According to Graphic Online, in a letter to all Regional Directors of Education, the service shared the examination schedules and called for timely preparation.

The BECE will take place from June 9 to June 16, 2025, while the WASSCE be held from August 4 to September 19, 2025.

The council will provide details on the registration period later on.

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Delali Adogla-Bessa (Current Affairs Editor) Delali Adogla-Bessa is a Current Affairs Editor with YEN.com.gh. Delali previously worked as a freelance journalist in Ghana and has over seven years of experience in media, primarily with Citi FM, Equal Times, Ubuntu Times. Delali also volunteers with the Ghana Institute of Language Literacy and Bible Translation, where he documents efforts to preserve local languages. He graduated from the University of Ghana in 2014 with a BA in Information Studies. Email: delali.adogla-bessa@yen.com.gh.

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