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Ghana
will not conduct WASSCE in 2010
By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot
Accra, Aug 13, Ghanadot -
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) will
not conduct the May/June 2010 West African Senior
School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Ghana.
This is due to the fact that the current second-year
students who started the four-year senior high
school programme will next year be in their
third-year and, therefore, cannot be eligible to
participate in the examination.
However, it is only in 2011, when the students will
be in the fourth and final year that they will be
qualified to write the WASSCE. There will, however,
be the November-December private candidates WASSCE
in 2010.
This was contained in a letter issued by the Ghana
Education Service (GES) to heads of senior high
schools, outlining the calendar for the 2009-2010
academic year, a copy of which has been made
available to the media.
“Please, note that there would be no West Africa
Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in
May/June 20:10. This calendar supersedes any other
that has been published," the letter signed by a
Deputy Director General of GES, Ms Benedicta Naana
Biney, added.
According to the calendar, next year's Basic
Education Certificate Examination (BECE) would be
held from April 19 to 23, 2010. .
the letter said the first term for the 2009-2010
academic year for basic schools in the country would
begin from September 15, 2009 and end on December
17, 2009, adding that pupils would then go on
Christmas break from December 18, 2009 to January
11, 2009.
The second term for the academic year would begin
from January 12, 2010 to April 15, 2010. Pupils
would go on holidays from April 16, 20I0 to May 10,
20I0, after which the third term would commence from
May 11, 2010 to July 29, 2010.
For senior high schools, the calendar indicated that
the first term for the 2009-2010 academic year
starts from September 11, 2009 to December 18, 2009,
with holidays slated for December 19, 2009 to
January 7, 2010.
The second term, it said, would commence from
January 8, 2010 to April 9, 2010. Students would
break for holidays from April 10, 2010 to April 29,
2010.
According to the calendar, senior high schools were
to resume for the third and final term for the
academic year from April 30, 2010 to August 5, 2010.
Meanwhile, the GES says it has taken cognisance of
the involvement of a large number of serving
teachers currently pursuing the Diploma in Basic
Education by distance and sandwich in the Colleges
of Education.
"In view of this, it has become necessary to
synchronise the basic schools academic calendar with
that of the Colleges of Education. By this
arrangement, excuses by teachers to vacate
classrooms to attend such programmes should
therefore not be tolerated," a letter signed by the
Director-General of the GES, Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah,
said.
Ghanadot
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