Ghana tops in WAEC international examination

Ghana has for the past five years toped the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) Competition for the international excellence award, WAEC announced on Thursday.
For the year 2014, all three Ghanaian candidates who participated in the award with other WAEC students, swept all the three top awards offered at that level once again.
The overall top candidate, Hasan Mickail, a former student of Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in the Western Region, who was the best candidate in the General Science programme, both at the national and international level, also won the Bandele Award for the best performing candidate in the whole of West Africa.
Ghana, Nigeria, and the Gambia participated in the 2014 WAEC examination, while Liberia and Sierra Leone, the two other WAEC countries, did not participate in the examinations due to the Ebola pandemic and a change in those countries educational system.
The Very Reverend Samuel Nmai Ollennu, the Head of National Office, WAEC, who announced this at this year’s WAEC Distinction Awards ceremony organized to honour candidates, who excelled in the May/June 2014 edition of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) said Ghana, since the period of the SSCE and when the WASSCE was introduced has been topping in the international exams.
He said for the past four years, Ghanaian WASSCE students have continuously topped in the international Exams.
Rev Ollennu explained that for a candidate to win such awards, he or she must obtain a minimum of eight grade A1s.
Candidates, who qualified for the awards, competed at two levels, consisting of the national (home country) and international (West Africa) levels with other WAEC candidates.
At the award ceremony held in Accra, the overall top winner, Mickail and four other awardees were given various sums of money, certificates, and laptops, whilst their former schools were given plagues.
Mickail was offered a full scholarship by the Universal Merchant Bank Ghana Limited to undertake a tertiary education in any university in Ghana, while the WAEC Endowment Fund, the main sponsor of the Distinction awards gave him the cedi equivalent of 300 dollars, and the Ghana National office of WAEC gave him 700 dollars, cedi equivalent.
Other award winners were Mr Kenyah Blaykyi, formerly of St Augustine’s College, who took the second position, received the cedi equivalent of 200 dollars and 300 dollars from the WAEC Fund and the Ghana National office, WAEC, respectively. FirstBanc Ghana, a financial institution is also giving Mr Blaykyi GH¢ 2,000 as part of the package.
Henry Enninful Archibald, a former student of Mfantsipim School, won the third position and was rewarded with 200 dollars and 300 dollars from the Fund and the Ghana National Office respectively.  The Enterprise Insurance Limited also gave GHC 1,000 to Mr Archibald.
Mr Elvis Okoh-Asirifi, formerly of Opoku Ware SHS in the Ashanti Region, and Ms Deborah Akosua Atuabea Attuah, a former student of Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast, won the best candidate in business and General Arts Programmes respectively. They all received the cedi equivalent of 400 dollars each and certificates.
Rev Ollennu said by giving the awards, WAEC believed that it would be an incentive to spur the students on to work harder in future examinations and in other future endeavours.
Dr Iyi Uwadiae, the Registrar at the WAEC Council commended Ghana for the consistency in winning the awards over the past years, assuring that, in spite of the few examination malpractices, WAEC exams were “still valid and very reliable”.
Mr Enoch Cobbinah, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, who represented the Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Alex Kyeremeh, said the outstanding performances by the students indicated that “Ghana’s educational system is the best in the West Africa region so no one should think that our educational system is in shambles”.
Source: GNA

Mountcrest University College breaks grounds for Medical School

Mountcrest University College has broken the ground for the construction of a medical school lecture hall complex and a teaching hospital at Larteh.

The lecture hall complex expected to be ready in September would also house the School of Nursing and Midwifery and would be named after the late son of the founder of the college, Kwame Ansa-Asare.

Mr Kwaku Ansa-Asare, Founder and Rector of the School, said the School had forged a partnership with the College of Medicine at Penn State University and the partnership involves course work development, medical student exchange and expansion of the Global Health Scholars Programme to Ghana.

Education Minister inaugurates COTVET Governing Board

Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, Minister of Education, has inaugurated a 16-member Board for the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) and charged them to develop policies to enhance skills training.

The Minister highlighted the economic importance of technical and vocational education and training and expressed Government's commitment to supporting the sector.

Free SHS Programme To Start In September

President John Dramani Mahama, yesterday, renewed the Government’s commitment to implement the Progressively Free Secondary Education Programme for Senior High School (SHS) in the 2015/2016 academic year, which starts in September.

He said 367,565 students are expected to benefit from the programme, which would abolish tuition fee for both day and boarding students in public schools but students would pay for boarding and feeding fees.

President Mahama said this when he delivered State of the Nation Address to the Parliament in Accra.

He said the education sector; in the 2015 budget, received the biggest allocation with GH₵6.7 billion and that showed the Government’s commitment of providing better education to the citizenry.

Work on the construction of the initial 73 Community Day SHS, he said, were on-going while that on 50 new sites had also begun to complement the existing high schools.

President Mahama announced that work on the University of Health and Allied Sciences in the Volta Region was in progress with the first batch of students being admitted to start the academic year.

He said the Government’s plan to convert Polytechnics to Technical University was on course, while it was considering the conversion of the University for Development Studies’ campuses in Wa and Navrongo in the Upper West and East Regions, respectively, to full universities.

On Social Protection, President Mahama said the Government had introduced a card known as the “EBAN Elderly Card”, which would enable elderly people of 65years and above to enjoy transport services at 50 per cent discount and also to have priority access to banking and hospital services.

He said 15,000  ‘poorest households’ would this year be enrolled onto the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme, (LEAP), while 14,000 orphan caregivers would be trained to give good care to orphans and persons with disability.

The President urged Ghanaians to endeavour to eat what was grown locally to add value to the local produce in order to boost Ghana’s economy.

He said according to the Bank of Ghana, the country’s rice import bill had fallen by 41 per cent, which meant a lot more could be done to protect the local economy by patronizing locally made produce.

President Mahama said the revamping of the Komenda Sugar Factory was progressing, while work on the Dipali Sugar Factory in the Northern Region would begin this year to provide direct and indirect employment to the growing youth of Ghana.

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