Category: Education

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed claims by former Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum that poor management practices contributed to the decline in students’ performance in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The service described the comments as misplaced and urged the public to ignore them.

In a statement issued on Monday, December 1, 2025, and signed by the Head of Public Relations, Daniel Fenyi, the GES said the 2025 results reflected the true academic performance of candidates.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has cancelled the entire results of 653 candidates who sat for this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates (WASSCE-SC) for possessing mobile phones in the examination halls.

In addition, the council has cancelled the subject results of 6,295 candidates for taking foreign materials like prepared notes, textbooks and printed materials into the examination halls.

Furthermore, WAEC is withholding the subject results of 908 students and the entire results of 158 candidates for various offences.

The Principal of the Akim State University College, Prof. Dominic S.Y. Amuzu, has urged the government to extend the “no fees stress” policy to Ghanaian students in private universities to reduce the financial burden on their parents, as is being done for their counterparts in public universities. 

He has called on the government to support private tertiary institutions in the country with the needed financial and logistical resources to enable them to contribute effectively to the national development agenda.

Prof. Amuzu said this at the third joint matriculation for 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 batches of students and the fifth congregation of the college at Akyem Asene near Oda in the Eastern Region.

The Attorney General’s opinion on the rights of Muslim students at Wesley Girls’ High School is more than a legal interpretation; it is a litmus test for Ghana’s cherished social cohesion.

To accept the view that Muslim girls can be barred from observing fundamental religious practices like the five daily prayers and fasting during Ramadan is to plant a seed of deep division that will yield bitter fruit for generations to come.

This stance, if institutionalised, will have severe consequences, necessitating a profound and strategic response from the Muslim community.

SOME recently enrolled Form One students of Labone Senior High School in Accra sit on the floor while the rest cram on dining hall benches during lessons. The situation has raised concerns among parents, who were asked to contribute GH¢300 for infrastructure in addition to the GH¢100 Parent Teacher Association dues, but say they have seen no improvement. When The Mirror visited the school on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, a number of classrooms had students in uncomfortable positions, especially as all the good  desks were being used by the seniors (Form Three…

The Supreme Court has given the Board of Directors of Wesley Girls Senior High School in Cape Coast 14 days to respond to allegations made by the plaintiff in the case challenging the constitutionality of certain directives of the school. 

The plaintiff, Shafic Osman is at the Supreme alleging that Wesley Girls Senior High School’s policy, which forces Muslim girls to attend Christian service and prevents the Muslim girls from practising their religion, is inconsistent with the provisions of the 1992 constitution. 

In court on Tuesday [Nov 25, 2025], the seven-member panel hearing the case, which has Justice Gabriel Pwamang as the president, was of the view that the school’s board of directors needed to respond to these factual allegations to help the court to establish the facts if they wish to.

Academic City University has partnered the African Gifted Foundation (AGF) to offer full scholarships to six young girls to pursue undergraduate programmes in engineering.

The move is part of efforts to break barriers limiting women’s participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM),

The beneficiaries are from Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Togo and Kenya.