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72% Students fail 2014 WASSCE

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  • SAM 9 years ago

    Ghanaian students affected by bad government.

  • Thomas Kaakyire 9 years ago

    So children of poor parents cannot receive their results why rich people like Mahama and his brothers have free education for their children at the expense of the poor? Only in Ghana do we have this nonsense. Where is freedom ...
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  • Yaw Adu-Asare 9 years ago

    Thomas has the freedom to express his opinion; even if it is stupid.

  • KWAKU MANU 9 years ago

    I am sure you are some of the few enjoying Mahama's quality education otherwise I would say you are a BIG FOOL

  • PNDC Account no. 48 9 years ago

    Our education dey be k3k3 thanks to this incompetent government. Greedy bastards.

  • Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 9 years ago

    This situation is two tow-fold caused: that the Ghanaian public should take the blame for being irresponsible at the polling station and secondly that the cluelessness of the Mills/Mahama NDC government is absolute. Let the c ...
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  • Aggrey 9 years ago

    Sack minister and DEPUTY

  • KWAKU MANU 9 years ago

    Sack the Mahama led cleptocratic government

  • Hebert, Sweden 9 years ago

    Sorry, fellow Ghanians. Why do you tend self created errors or selfishness of individuals to Mahama`s government? These kind of examination malpractices of the WAEC, has been there for Centuries. Do you expect the Regional Ed ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 9 years ago

    The reporting of the results should be broken down into the 10 regions, to find out which regions are doing better,

  • Royal 9 years ago

    Hebert, where were you when NDC changed the educational system from NPP's four years to three years?

  • Komla Agbeshie ( Ho ) 9 years ago

    That is the price to pay for their so called BETTER GHANA AGENDA.

  • ROY 9 years ago

    THESE RESULTS ARE A MANIFESTATION OF PUPILS' RELIANCE ON PRAYERS, INSTEAD OF STUDYING FOR THE EXAMS.
    PARENTS ARE ADVISED TO BRING HOME TO THEIR CHILDREN THAT HARD WORK IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN LIFE SO IN ANY ENDEAVOUR, THEY ...
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  • NN 9 years ago

    Thanks,there are still a few People in Ghana who are factual.
    Our present day generation of students behave exactly like the politicians; always looking for short cuts to success. Only hardwork and discipline can give good r ...
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  • Kwachas 9 years ago

    I am not surprised : the three years is not full three years, embargo on extra classes and vacation classes that can facilitate completion of syllabus are factors. Teacher unfriendly policies making teachers spend more time o ...
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  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    This is a clear evidence of one of the problems the country is facing now. I must say the educational system in this country has become poor day in and day out. I think we need to renovate the educational system in this count ...
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  • John -Tema 9 years ago

    I side with you my brother gone were the days that a student could get Grade 2 in O Level but could still go to Poly,Teacher or Nursing Training.Now everybody is aiming at 8As,how many doctors even had 4As to Medical School i ...
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  • HARUNA WEDGU 9 years ago

    Fools

  • Aku sika 9 years ago

    Teachers can't teach. Parents can't financially support the students. What do you expect?

  • dissapointed citizen 9 years ago

    now we can't even educate our future leaders

    banana republic

  • BOB TEMA 9 years ago

    MAHAMA AND HIS USELESS MINISTERS HAS KILLED EDUCATION IN GH.

  • Mozato 9 years ago

    The vampire Mahama has destroyed every social, economic and moral fabric of Ghana with education being the last to go down. Poly Students are in their third month of locked out from school. His outfit as ECOWAS Chair has ang ...
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  • malleto 9 years ago

    The curriculum should be revised and the local text books used as guide for students should be discouraged. The books are full of mistakes. I wonder as to if these local text were edited and approved by GES

  • obikyire 9 years ago

    Atta Mill needs to be brought back from the grave to account for this. Immediately NDC came to power, they made a fuss about 4years SSS and reduced it to 3yrs.Where is Ablakwa and all the others.Put the blame on Mills, and th ...
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  • Zak 9 years ago

    Whatt is this? Okudzeto is bussing opening filling stations instead of doing the job he is paid for. We need generational thinkers to run our ministries not school boys with no working experience. Apart from may be doing his ...
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  • 0243578657 9 years ago

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    It is announced for the information
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  • Branaboy 9 years ago

    These results are exactly what the NDC propagandist want, a semi-literate gullible population that they can bamboozle with their unintelligent rants.

    Just wait for it, they are about to blame these results on UNPATRIOTIC e ...
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  • CHALK 9 years ago

    In a country where schools are starved of ordinary CHALK is it strange that 72% of exam candidates fail? No, it is not strange.

  • BYRCE 9 years ago

    Sack the Minister for education

  • essy 9 years ago

    why was she the one who sat behind the paper to answer the questions? blame the candidates

  • Kakraba Bubu 9 years ago

    Ghana is in trouble !!!!! Why NDC? It is not enough to ensure that every child of school going age attends and complete basic school, we must also ensure that they are achieving and that they achieve numeracy, literacy and cr ...
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  • OMAN BAPA 9 years ago

    HMMMMMMMM,Eeeeeeei WITH MAHAMA THINGS ARE BASAAAAAA IN GHANA

  • agbeko 9 years ago

    what do u expect if u have okudzato as deputy education minister.

  • joe d 9 years ago

    what has Mahama to do with this.When u u are following western style by buying laptops and expensive mobile phones for children at the age 13 to 20.thinking that is cool.How can u expect u,r child to learn when u have bought ...
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  • MensaH K 9 years ago

    Continue the good work you are doing. Keep it up.

  • me 9 years ago

    Create the environment for Ghana to be filled with illiterates.

  • Papa Yaw. 9 years ago

    So

  • Open your eyes 9 years ago

    Education in Ghana has collapsed as the government has failed.

  • Lala 9 years ago

    Does NDC government seriously believe Ghanians are so clueless to elect them again? I don't think so! NDC can be forgiven for not able to handle the economic management, but destroying education is unpardonable!

  • jon 9 years ago

    why not with all this mtv, facebook and whatsapp, no parental guidance, apathy from teachers, why not

  • HASSAN YAAYIMA _ Jasikan 9 years ago

    I pity dis John Mahama government bcos nothing seems to be well.
    wat is the minister of education doing.
    Jane Nana as a teacher, im very disappointed in her.
    she should be removed immediately

  • COMPARE TO HOLLAND 9 years ago

    OUR EDUCATION SYSTERM IS VERY POOR AND IT NOT HELPING GHANA FORWARD ENOUGH ,WE SCHOOL TO BE SMART LIKE A WHITE MEN BUT WE ARE FAR BEHIND THEM WHY ?

  • COMPARE TO HOLLAND 9 years ago

    OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM IS VERY POOR IT'S NOT HELPING GHANA MOVE FORWARD ENOUGH , WE SCHOOL TO BE LIKE WHITE MEN BUT YET WE STILL BEHIND THEM WHY ?

  • KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    Your attempted correction still didn't sound right. Yet you had the nerve to complain about our education system.

  • nanako 9 years ago

    the government is failing every where of the economy

  • Paapa 9 years ago

    So when will all this leakage of exam question stop?

    This proves how corrupt the country is. Governments have been corrupt themselves and unable to deal with this issue from Adam.

    Something must be done. If irresponsibl ...
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  • Nana Gyambiby - Jacobuhene 9 years ago

    Please re-frame your headliner to reflect reality. We can't have a 100% pass rate to Universities. That doesn't mean 72% of students who had other passes are TOTAL BLOCKHEADS
    A better caption could be only 28% qualify for UN ...
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  • John,Tema 9 years ago

    You are yourself confused,they said 28.11% qualified for tertiary admission.Tertiary education includes Universities,Poly,Teacher Training Colleges & Nursing Training Colleges etc.True 100% never qualify to Uni.

  • KA NA WU 9 years ago

    Education Minister must go right away due to poor performance of his/her ministry. Are you telling the whole Ghanaians the students were dump? It was due to poor performance of your ministry. Shame on you so called Profess ...
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  • HIM 9 years ago

    This is a very serious concern- and if we need a wakeup call regarding how bad this country would be in the next several years, this is it.

  • KKO 9 years ago

    A failed banana republic!She is not ashamed to announce this disaster to the whole world, and the idiot Okudjeto Ablakwa thinks internal problems in the NPP cast a bad image of Ghana?
    A Tweaaaaa president with Tweaaaaa min ...
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  • Kpabitey 9 years ago

    It is funny,now every body in Ghana speaks English to their children at home and all they do is copy what happens in America and the uk,It is sad when you talk to these guys in Ghana all of the trying to put on accent.In a co ...
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  • Puma 9 years ago

    The effect of NDC ''Dumso''How were expecting these children to study in darkness

  • MARFO 9 years ago

    THIS WOMAN MUST GO.

  • Wiseman 9 years ago

    not only her,,,,His employer too must go.

  • adenosine 9 years ago

    leave the 'government' out of this. we are the government, they are just our leaders and these leadership starts from home. As a leader(father or mother or guardian) at home, what role model do you give or what do you tell yo ...
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  • ONE OF YOURS 9 years ago

    NANA ADDO only want to be president,striking teachers everyday doing the bid of npp.now NPP & NDC PARENTS YOUR WARDS FAILED IN SCHOOL.WEIGH IN POLITICS AND THE FUTURE OF YOUR WARDS,ITS NOT ABOUT MAHAMA,ITS ABOUT YOU AND ME OU ...
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  • Wiseman 9 years ago

    Congratulations,,,,,Naana and Mahama.!!
    Aniwuo nka mo.

  • ONE OF YOURS 9 years ago

    pls madam minister of education step aside with your deputies.its a shame to invest million in education to come and tell the public that all the students had failed.you are paid for what,parents also spent millions on wards ...
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  • NTIKUMA ANANSE 9 years ago

    THE NATION IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK AND AND SOME GHANAIANS, PROMINENT IN GHANA STILL THINK JOHN MAHAMA AND THE NDC ARE THOSE TO FIX IT. WE HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE. GIVE THE NDC A MILLION YEARS AND THE PROBLEMS WILL BE WORSE TH ...
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  • ONE OF YOURS 9 years ago

    KOFI ANNAN is talking about peace and security,human right and rule of law , he is right,others in the political divide can also talk on values and petriotism,.MAHAMA GAVE THEM MONEY TO RUN THE SCHOOLS,HE PAID TEACHERS TO TEA ...
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  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    This is SERIOUS! Oh the government must do something... Too much cell phones use, ill-equipped schools non-dedicated teachers, indisciplined kids, inadequate staffing,, name them; all have contributed to this national disast ...
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  • Dr Robert K Glah 9 years ago

    Congratulations to West African Examinations Council (WAEC)for the conduct of the Exams with integrity with warnings to Gov, teachers, patents and students to do better to improve future performance.

    The Schools should b ...
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  • Pround pepeni. 9 years ago

    THERE IS CORRUPTION EVERYWHERE EVEN THE TEACHERS ARE CORRUPT. MONEY MEANT FOR EQUIPING SCHOOLS ARE SQUANDERED. PRICES FOR EVERYTHING IS INFILATED BY THE HEADTEACHERS AND SCHOOL BOARDS TO THE DETRIMENT OF STUDENTS. IT IS A FAC ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Definitely unacceptable something must change. What is happening now calls for such a change. Social media is competing with our already terrible schools. The kids are not studying hard enough, they are spending too much time ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 9 years ago

    A politician, I will not name, just before the WASSCE, was heard admonishing the kids to have faith in God, God helps those who spent their time studying.

  • Hard Listeners 9 years ago

    Definitely if politics comes into educational matters that is the results you get. Clearly the four year system was yielding good results from the past results. My daughter is a good student but had to really struggle last tw ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 9 years ago

    Four years ago there was no social media for your daughter to waste her precious time on.
    You guys must stop politicizing everything in sight.

  • NON-ALIGNED 9 years ago

    It's about time we rethink our entire education system in our country and more importantly on our continent - AFRICA!!! Why do we continue with this brainwash education system which has kept us in the doldrums for years…… ...
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  • Ntiamoah 9 years ago

    The wisdom of 4 years vs the wisdom of 3 years. Why is Okudzeto not commenting on this but chasing POTAG an UTAG?

  • Haruna 9 years ago

    ueseless like Ghana education services

  • Lartey G 9 years ago

    K4 is not around for you kick him around. Yes, the difference is sooooooo CRYSTAL CLEAR.
    I am also happy that the WORST PERFORMERS were from the world banks of the NDC.

    May this world bank people continue to wallow in the ...
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  • Gandalf 9 years ago

    PLEASE ALL THIS SHOWS THAT THE THREE YEAR SHS THING IS NOT GOOD AND MUST BE CHANGED. STUDENTS NEED TIME TO ASSIMILATE THE LESSONS. WHAT THEY ARE DOING AT SHS LEVEL NOW, WE DID (1980) IN UPPER SIX AND FIRST YEAR. THE SYLLABUS ...
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  • Gandalf 9 years ago

    Profits from Mifal HaPayis[ISRAELI LOTTERE], which runs games like lotto, scratch card contests, and other legal gambling ventures, go into the educational system, generally to build classrooms and community centers and to sp ...
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  • Joe 9 years ago

    Nothing is working for these NDC CROOKS who just came in to destroy the nation. Every area of the nation is crumbling - from economy, to education to moral, everything. All what NDC knows is to steal and win elections but do ...
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  • Kwame Angel 9 years ago

    This is the new, practical education Jerry Rawlings and his illiterate revolutionaries bequeathed on Ghana

  • Maame Abena 9 years ago

    "72% Students fail 2014 WASSCE"

    Oh YES Mahama and the NDC did promise a better Ghana.
    72% failure is under a better Ghana.
    Somebody better wake Mahama up for he is in deep sleep.
    I hate to see Mahama's bitter Ghana, th ...
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  • Maame Abena 9 years ago

    Sack the minister of education now.

  • nana Brefo 9 years ago

    PERFORMANCE Of WAEC continues to be worsening every year why?

  • kodjo 9 years ago

    Stupid reportage!!! it says 28% made it to the tertiary institutions which isn't the same as 72% failing. This sort of sensational reporting must stop. It helps no one.

  • Steve 9 years ago

    The Education Minister should be fired

  • CALABASH 9 years ago

    This is a gov't that promised Ghanaians "quality education and access" in it's program to address the educational needs of the citizenry.
    With a failure rate of a colossal figure of over 70% at the basic level, with absolut ...
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  • CALABASH 9 years ago

    Correction for subject heading....

  • The Fact 9 years ago

    What criteria do GES at national and regional levels use to post graduate teachers? 3rd class and 2nd class lower graduate teachers pay money at GES regional and national levels and get posted to senior high schools. The poor ...
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  • obrohobros 9 years ago

    The same standard they use to grade 1st class and second lass and lower at university, those who gets second class and third class are even better that 1st class get the fact well next time

  • Antiochus - London 9 years ago

    Better Ghana Agenda!

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    This is the fulfilment of one of the NDC's promise: to provide quality education education to our children. With only quarter of the candiadtes qualifying for tertiary education, it will be easy to for the tertiary schools to ...
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  • WHAT A SHAAAME 9 years ago

    EVIL NDC WANTS TO DESTROY GHANA FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR ILL-GOTTEN CORRUPT WEALTH. FIRING SQUAD IS INEVITABLE

  • USMAN 9 years ago

    You can now see how useless our university graduates in authority are.

  • SUHUM SAMAN 9 years ago

    Why are you always bashing universities ?
    What did they do to you?
    Usman, we really do need more universities.

  • NON-ALIGNED 9 years ago

    It's about time we rethink our entire education system in our country and more importantly on our continent - AFRICA!!! Why do we continue with this brainwash education system which has kept us in the doldrums for years…… ...
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  • DD 9 years ago

    Stop playing politics with our children's future. Let them spend 4 years at SHS so they can complete the sylabus

  • ODEHYEEBA KAAKYIRE, CAPITAL TV-ACCRA 9 years ago

    ARE YOU SAYING 72% OF OUR CHILDREN FAILED IN THEIR WASCE EXAMS? I DONT BELIEVE IT IS TRUE. IF IT TRUE, THEN WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. THE FAILURE IS TOO BIG. GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.

  • Kwamena 9 years ago

    The fact that 28% of the students obtained the required grades into tertiary institutions does not mean that the 72% failed entirely. I am sure the students obtained passes in other subjects. That notwithstanding, it is a sad ...
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  • The Concerned Ghanaian 9 years ago

    Sack minister of Education and her deputy .this shows how weak president Mahama is for appointing ministers and most officials in his administration.Iam a staunch NDC member but president Mahama is putting NDC back 20 years. ...
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  • Flagon 9 years ago

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  • DONBOLI 9 years ago

    75% of student failed by their teachers. How can they allow students to waste their money and time knowing they are not up to the exams. Where are the mock exams to determine whether they are good enough to take the exams.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    There is a limit to what the teacher can do. The teacher cannot use his unpaid salary to buy teaching aids. The teacher cannot change the number of years from 4 to 3. The teacher cannot appoint competent people to run the GES ...
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  • Ebibiman 9 years ago

    Teachers are rather busy banging the girls.

  • John onipanua 9 years ago

    If 72% of our future leaders fail the exams and are therefore derailed or banished to hardship then we need to sit up and seriously start to find solution it also prove that the Ghana education system is a failure not the war ...
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  • rev daniel 9 years ago

    why is waec now coming on air to explain that only 3% totally failed in all subjects and that 72% branded about is wrong? Presidsent let your comm. team wakeup. a lot of damage is being done to your government

  • Bazeh 9 years ago

    Some of us have applied awaiting in tertiary institutions.So Waec should try and speed up their investigations so as to release the results of the 36 schools.

  • Benson 9 years ago

    pls Waec in collabration with Ministry of Education must do something about the grading system. Does it make sence,if a student had A1 through out and he had D7 in Mathematics or English,do we have to say such student is not ...
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