Author name: Bansah

This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has successfully ended with little or no cases of exams malpractices that led to cancellations, however, Joy News has learnt that some of the questions set by the exams body were not contained in the prescribed syllabus for the Junior High School (JHS) level. Some of the questions,

The government has reaffirmed its commitment to the continuous efforts of developing the Regional Maritime University (RMU) into a world class specialised University for maritime affairs. Mr. Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Minister of Transport speaking at the opening of the 18th Board of Governors Meeting of RMU said: “We have no doubts that other members

An order of interlocutory injunction has been issued against the University of Education, Winneba, restraining the supposed Principal Officers appointed by the defunct Governing Council from holding themselves out as officers, agents, assigns or lawful representatives of the University, until the final determination of the substantive application before the court.   It would be recalled

About 133 BECE Candidates in the Binduri District in the Upper East Region couldn’t write the ICT paper today in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination. This was due to the fact that they were not registered to take part in the ICT exam. Meanwhile they wrote both Monday and Tuesday’s papers, only to get to

A pregnant BECE candidate (name withheld) at Akye Mansa in  the Eastern region was forced to leave a health facility to the exams center in order to write the maths paper right after she delivered on Thursday morning. According to Nurses at the Akokoasu Clinic, invigilators refused to bring the papers to the health facility

Bernard Opoku, a final-year candidate of Akyem Panning Junior High School in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region, reportedly went blind immediately he opened the Integrated Science question paper to read through the instructions before attempting to write it at the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination. His predicament was believed to be spiritual as

Teachers of Methodist Primary A and B, Holy Child Preparatory, Saviour Primary School and Methodist Junior High A and B in Fawohoyeden, a farming community in the Asunafo North Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region, are threatening to boycott classes and other teaching related activities if authorities fail to beef up security in the area

A total of 12 teenage pregnancies have been recorded in eight Centres at the on-going Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) as against 17 cases registered last year in the Agona west Municipality. This indicated that students were adhering to information sharing through sensitisation and formation various girls clubs at the basic schools in the Municipality. The

The Executive Director of Child Rights International, Bright Appiah, has asked the West African Examinations Council, WAEC to soften its stance on the fate of the more than 200 candidates from Bunkpurugu who could not write the first two papers of this year’s BECE. The candidates missed the English Language paper One and Two on