The management of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) ahead of the administration of its international examination for five-member countries has released the 2022 WASSCE for School timetable for Ghanaian candidates.

According to the timetable sighted by EducationWeb, the 2022 edition of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will commence on Monday, August 1, 2022, and end on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. Prospective WASSCE students in the country on Thursday, September 8, 2022, will sit for English Language (Objective and Essay) and Core/General Mathematics (Objective and Essay) on Thursday, September 15, 2022. Integrated Science (Objective and Essay), the not-for-profit-making organization (WAEC) has said will be conducted on Wednesday, September 19, 2022, and Social Studies (Objective and Essay) on Monday, September 5, 2022.

West African Examinations Council says it will this year introduce new technology as part of efforts to curb cases of examination malpractice. Please click here to download the official 2022 WASSC for School timetable. In a related story, the Minister for Education, Mr Audutwum following the unsatisfactory performance of candidates who sat for 2021 WASSCE in some subjects has vowed to improve the pass rate of 2022 WASSCE mathematics. “Actually the average is 60% certain subjects rate went up, others dipped but if you put in average is still 60%. So if you look at English and Maths, for example, there was a dip but Integrated Science saw a huge jump,” he stated.

I want to assure you that Mathematics should not see a dip in my time as somebody who is Mathematician, we are going to look at what went wrong and see what we can do,” Dr Osei Yaw Adutwum said at a press briefing. The Bosomtwe Member of Parliament indicated he believes increasing the pass rate of English Language and Mathematics this academic year will guarantee a higher rate of entry into various public universities in the country.

Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum says 518,717 students out of the 555,252 who qualified for SHS/TVET placement as of last Friday have successfully been placed into their respective second cycle schools across the country. Speaking to journalists, he said 320,773 representing 93.4 per cent of 2021 BECE students who qualified for placement have been enrolled on various Senior High School and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

The Education Minister following the enormous achievement in the ongoing placement exercise commended stakeholders associated with the school placement and encouraged them to ensure all placed students are enrolled. “On Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), as of Friday evening, 51,267 students have been placed in only TVET schools of which 25,941 had also enrolled,” Mr Adutwum told the media at a press briefing in Accra. Commenting on what has not gone well since the start of the school placement, the Minister for Education said parents and students have disregarded the procedure earlier communicated in regard to placement challenges.

The Teaching Minister noted that parents of students who were asked to do self-placement rather stormed the resolution centres meant for those who had been placed but with challenges to seek placement for their wards. “I wonder why some parents waited till schools reopened before they started rushing to do either self-placement or rushing to the resolution centres which were virtually empty during the first week of the placement exercise,” Yaw said. Coordinator of Free SHS Secretariat, Mr William Darkwa considering the slow school enrolment at the press briefing said his outfit in due will course will embark on an enrolment drive to ensure that all placed students are enrolled.

As part of efforts to support the Free SHS policy, he entreated Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies to take a keen interest in the school placement and enrolment exercise to ensure qualified students are in school. “We urge stakeholders in communities to complement the government's effort by assisting brilliant but needy students in their communities who had been placed in any school with some of the items needed so they could enrol,” he said.

President Nana Akufo-Addo's right-hand man disclosed this on Thursday speaking on the state of the country's economy at the TESCON national conference on Thursday, April 7, 2022, in Kasoa monitored by EducationWeb The brand new tablets pre-loaded with textbooks and learning materials to public second cycle school students Mr Mahamudu Bawumia said form parts of the Akufo-Addo led administration effort to digitise the education sector. “We have started the distribution of laptops to teachers. The next step is to provide tablets with preloaded textbooks and learning materials to Senior High Schools students,” the Vice-President told Ghanaians at the TESCON conference.

Remarking on the achievements of Mr Addo's administration, he said “For the first time in our history, the government has provided free Wifi to over 700 Senior High Schools, 42 Colleges of Education and 13 public universities.” “For the first time in our history, we are implementing Free TVET and have established the Ghana TVET service 128 27. For the first time in our history, our Government has implemented Free SHS,” the right-hand man said on Thursday. Attributing the worsening state of the economy to the Covid pandemic, Mr Mahamudu urged Ghanaians to remain calm as the central government is putting in place the key pillars for the economic transformation of Ghana.” “We may not yet be where we want to be, and we may be buffeted by the winds of the global coronavirus pandemic and the war for yet a little while, but we have made a great start and, together, we shall finish what we started

We understand your desire for a bright and prosperous future. A future that would have the resilience to better withstand shocks of the nature we are currently experiencing,” the Digitalization advocate stated at the conference. The economist continued that “some of our Senior High Schools are winning world robotic competitions. We must believe in our capabilities and do away with the impossibility mindset. We are building a new economy.”

Exempt 'Category A' SHSs from Free SHS - Prof Adei to Nana Addo Economist, Professor Stephen Adei as a part of a review of the free secondary school policy has asked the government to exempt Category A or best-performed Senior High Schools (SHSs) from the Free Senior High School programme. Speaking on JoyNews' Upfront show monitored by EducationWeb, Mr Adei said the government could use the funds to be spent on the top schools excluded from the policy to develop the community secondary schools in the country “We have to look at it again. I think that there are certain schools which we should make autonomous and fee-paying and people will go there, but then make sure there are good community schools for everybody else,” he told JoyNews.

According to the Economy Professor, only a few of the majority of poor students usually get admission to 'Category A' secondary schools including Achimota, thus the need to make the rich students who attend such schools pay fees. “Only a small proportion of the poor come to Achimota, let the rich go there and pay. Use the Achimota funds to have very good schools in every district so that they can be there and don't have to travel,” the Economist told Upfront host. In line with Stephen Addai, the host of Peace FM Kokrokoo show, Kwame Sefa Kayi has also urged the central government to review the popular Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy introduced in 2017 for better outcomes.

Speaking on his morning show, Mr Sefa Kayi said the implementation of the popular Free Senior High School (Free SHS) programme some five years ago has come a long way and thus needs to be reviewed by the central government. He indicated that the procurement of school items including uniforms and past questions among other things for final year Senior High School students preparing to sit for WASSCE for School are expenditures that need to be cut off. “It's been 5 years since we rolled the Free SHS programme. I don't understand why we have not done any review on it. We can make tuition-free but charge those at boarding houses,” the Despite media journalist said on Kokrokoo show.