The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah noted that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has shown its readiness to organise an independent West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for Ghanaian candidates due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In reaction to the fast growing health concern about the COVID-19 pandemic , the West African Examination Council (WAEC) in March, which comprises of Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, agreed to put hold on the conduct of the WASSCE for candidates, earlier planned to begin on April 6, 2020.
Schools and universities are to resume for students who are in their final year effective from Monday, June 15, 2020.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his address to the nation on Sunday, May 31, 2020, noted that final year students in Junior High, Senior High, and universities can re-open for classes and lectures ahead of the conduct for their various final examinations.
“Indeed, final year university students are to report to their universities on 15th June, final year senior high school (SHS 3) students together with SHS 2 gold track students on 22nd June and final-year junior high school (JHS 3) students on 29th June,” he noted.
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The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in an interview on Accra based Citi FM, asked on how WASSCE candidates in Ghana alone were going to take their exams after WAEC put a hold on the exams for the whole West African region, he said the examination body would provide support for countries that would want to organise their own examinations.
The Minister expatiated that because Ghana had been able to bring the disease under control, it would organise the exams for its final year students with the support of WAEC.
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