BECE grades sold for Ghc6,000 - Educationist

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ck 10 years ago

Results changing is an old age practice at WAEC office. This happens with all levels of exams conducted by WAEC. some unscrupulous officials at the so called computer room are behind this practice.

Results changing is an old age practice at WAEC office. This happens with all levels of exams conducted by WAEC. some unscrupulous officials at the so called computer room are behind this practice.
Lafia 10 years ago

ghana? everything in the name of ndc,everything

ghana? everything in the name of ndc,everything
krikri 10 years ago

You are right. This happens even in the Ghana Law School. Remember GABBY OTCHERE ASARE DARKO?

You are right. This happens even in the Ghana Law School. Remember GABBY OTCHERE ASARE DARKO?
MOBROWA 10 years ago

THIS PRACTICE HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME.

THIS PRACTICE HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

Get this educationist to give information about who told him that. The courts can invite him to help in any investigation. Ghana is so rotten to the core.

Get this educationist to give information about who told him that. The courts can invite him to help in any investigation. Ghana is so rotten to the core.
pancho 10 years ago

if you don't know the specific office and institution why are you speculating,come on guys lets be realistic

if you don't know the specific office and institution why are you speculating,come on guys lets be realistic
KOJO SUAREZ 10 years ago

WHEN YAW OSAFO MARFO DECLARED WAR AGAINST CHEATING IN EXAMS AND THE CORRUPTION THAT EXIST IN ALL SECTORS HE WAS REMOVED FROM HIS POST BY NOT ALLOWING SHS EXAMS NOT TO LEAK FOR THE FIRST TIME HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY. IN THAT YE ...
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WHEN YAW OSAFO MARFO DECLARED WAR AGAINST CHEATING IN EXAMS AND THE CORRUPTION THAT EXIST IN ALL SECTORS HE WAS REMOVED FROM HIS POST BY NOT ALLOWING SHS EXAMS NOT TO LEAK FOR THE FIRST TIME HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY. IN THAT YEAR THE TRUE COLOURS OF MOST SCHOOLS CAME OUT. I WONDER WHERE THIS FELLOW WHO COMPAINED HAS BEEN ALL THIS TIME. THE SOURCE DID NOT INCATE IF HE IS WORKING AT LEGON OR A GRADUATE/LECTURER EDUCATIONIST AT LEGON. EVEN AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL INSTITUTION LIKE LEGON, PEOPLE WITH VERY BAD GRADE PAY THEIR WAY INTO THE SCHOOL BY BUYING THE SLOT FOR PROTOCOL. THOSE DAYS PROTOCOL WAS FOR ONLY THE WARDS OF LECTURERS. BUT THESE LECTURERS ARE VERY MUCH AWARE OF WHAT IS BEING DONE THROUGH THE BACK DOOR BY SELLING OUT THEIR PROTOCOL BUT WHO CAN COMPLAIN. CORRUPTION HAS EATEN UP EVERY FIBER IN THE COUNTRY. AS FOR KNUST THE CORRUPTION THERE CANNOT BE QUANTIFIED. SHAME UNTO ALL OF YOU.
Yimbilla 10 years ago

THIS NONSENSE Happens in all institutions in Ghana.DVLA, PASSPORT OFFICE TO COCOBOD. People pay Ghc 4,500 to get jobs at Quality Control Department of Cocobod. Almost all the Officers at QCD paid bribes to get their jobs.

THIS NONSENSE Happens in all institutions in Ghana.DVLA, PASSPORT OFFICE TO COCOBOD. People pay Ghc 4,500 to get jobs at Quality Control Department of Cocobod. Almost all the Officers at QCD paid bribes to get their jobs.
Osei Yao 10 years ago

Is Mr Kwame Gyasi simply relaying gossip or he has hard evidence to support this serious allegation. I hope he makes himself available to assist with investigation.

Is Mr Kwame Gyasi simply relaying gossip or he has hard evidence to support this serious allegation. I hope he makes himself available to assist with investigation.
GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

IF I WERE PRESIDENT:
I WILL SET UP CORRUPTION TRAPS. LETS SEE WHO WILL BE TRAPPED? NSAWAM AWAITS UR KIND. U WILL GROW CORN N CABBAGE, DO ROAD CONSTRUSTION FOR 50 PESEWAS PER DAY

IF I WERE PRESIDENT:
I WILL SET UP CORRUPTION TRAPS. LETS SEE WHO WILL BE TRAPPED? NSAWAM AWAITS UR KIND. U WILL GROW CORN N CABBAGE, DO ROAD CONSTRUSTION FOR 50 PESEWAS PER DAY
kontonkyi, belgium 10 years ago

Mr Kwame Gyasi must be arrested by Ghana police for making this huge allegation and refusing to hint out the exact institution where this practice is going on. How could such an educationist be sober to connive with such mal ...
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Mr Kwame Gyasi must be arrested by Ghana police for making this huge allegation and refusing to hint out the exact institution where this practice is going on. How could such an educationist be sober to connive with such malpractice, for fear of his job or life? the police must act now.
ISRAEL 10 years ago

It is not enough to grandstand. Provide evidence to the authorities and/or go to court the Martin Amidu way.

It is not enough to grandstand. Provide evidence to the authorities and/or go to court the Martin Amidu way.
Obed Adore 10 years ago

The current pre-university education system must be changed for good. It is not serving the kids well. Students shouldn't be allowed to graduate at Gr-8 any more. The BECE exams shouldn't be certificate exams; Instead, they s ...
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The current pre-university education system must be changed for good. It is not serving the kids well. Students shouldn't be allowed to graduate at Gr-8 any more. The BECE exams shouldn't be certificate exams; Instead, they should be rendered as aptitude tests to guide pupils into selecting the best courses for the SHS and then to university. I believe this was the intent of introducing the BCE and the whole 12-year basic education system in Ghana. And this is the system in all advanced countries.
Simply put, the first point of graduating from basic education MUST be at Gr-12 i.e., the SHS level. The kids would have been a bit mature intellectually. The current BECE graduates who do not continue to the SHS are forced to go into the world as semi-illiterates (at best). Most turn out to be housemaids, hawkers, kay-yes, kaya-yos; the saddest of them all is that some of these young girls even become prostitutes.
We must restructure the basic school system in Ghana.
Segbefia - usa 10 years ago

Ghana can now be sold since it is open secrete that everything in Ghana now can be acquired if you have the money. GOOD JOB NDC!!!!

Ghana can now be sold since it is open secrete that everything in Ghana now can be acquired if you have the money. GOOD JOB NDC!!!!
PepperJ 10 years ago

WHY DID GHANAWEB PUBLISH THE PHOTO OF THE HON. MINISTER? WHAT IS THE IMPICATION HERE? SHE BARELY ASSUMED THE OFFICE. AFTER ALL THIS IS AN ALLEGATION WITHOUT A PROOF.

WHY DID GHANAWEB PUBLISH THE PHOTO OF THE HON. MINISTER? WHAT IS THE IMPICATION HERE? SHE BARELY ASSUMED THE OFFICE. AFTER ALL THIS IS AN ALLEGATION WITHOUT A PROOF.
mr Tina 10 years ago

Just look at university of ghana up to now they have not finish pasting all the student list just bcos of corruption. Those who have not yet seen their ward name will bribe just to get their ward admitted.

Just look at university of ghana up to now they have not finish pasting all the student list just bcos of corruption. Those who have not yet seen their ward name will bribe just to get their ward admitted.
VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

I AM GLAD SOMEBODY'S SPEAKING UP.
IT HAPPENED TO ME. MY DAUGHTER HAD THE PERFECT GRADE TO BE ADMITTED AT KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. THEY EVEN WROTE HER & CONGRATULATED HER FOR HER ACHIEVEMENT AND SAID ...
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I AM GLAD SOMEBODY'S SPEAKING UP.
IT HAPPENED TO ME. MY DAUGHTER HAD THE PERFECT GRADE TO BE ADMITTED AT KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. THEY EVEN WROTE HER & CONGRATULATED HER FOR HER ACHIEVEMENT AND SAID SHE WILL HEAR FROM THEM AND THEY NEVER DID.
SHE LATER ON WENT THERE WITH THE LETTER AND THEY TOLD HER THEY CAN'T ADMIT HER UNLESS SHE PAY SOME MONEY BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE CONTESTING FOR ADMISSION.
SHE LATER ON FOUND OUT THAT THOSE STUDENTS WHO DID NOT EVEN PASS THE EXAMS WERE ADMITTED.
THE GOOD STUDENTS ARE ALWAYS LEFT BEHIND. SO WHAT KIND OF A FUTURE ARE WE CREATING IN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY?
YOU DECIDE!
DOCTOR THINK TWICE 10 years ago

OOOOH HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! MOTHER GHANA, MOTHER AFRICA

OOOOH HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! MOTHER GHANA, MOTHER AFRICA
Victor 10 years ago

The Minister of Education should report this man to the Police to provide information for the arrest of the people behind this. If she fails, the Police should take the initiative!

We are destroying our country.

The Minister of Education should report this man to the Police to provide information for the arrest of the people behind this. If she fails, the Police should take the initiative!

We are destroying our country.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

What Mr. Gyasi has set out to do, could be likened to whistle-blowing. Therefore, he must be encouraged and protected to provide all the necessary information to unfathom the scandal, rather than threatening him to divulge an ...
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What Mr. Gyasi has set out to do, could be likened to whistle-blowing. Therefore, he must be encouraged and protected to provide all the necessary information to unfathom the scandal, rather than threatening him to divulge anything else.

He may even be able to provide just the tip of the scandal. And it would be up to the Investigative Authorities to pursue his lead.

Threatening whistleblowers with arrests and stuff like that would stifle that avenue of exposing the rot in our System. In fact, whistle-blowers must be rewarded, even monetarily, if that could help curb Corruption.

The other aspect of Public responsibility to whistleblowers is providing them with impenetrable cover and security since they could be putting their lives on the line for the good of the Nation.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Pancho 10 years ago

The Supreme Court Judges approved it and now the corruption is all over the place. You dig your own grave Ghana.

The Supreme Court Judges approved it and now the corruption is all over the place. You dig your own grave Ghana.
Pancho 10 years ago

Same as President Mahama approved STX conection

Same as President Mahama approved STX conection
Selira 10 years ago

My goodness Ghana has become another Nigeria

My goodness Ghana has become another Nigeria
CONCERNMAN 10 years ago

STAFF OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED SHOULD BE ROTATED ANUALLY TO AVOID CORRUPTION. THE PASSPORT OFFICE STAFF(SOME) HAVE NOW BEEN STATIONED THERE PERMANENTLY AND I HOPE THE NEW MINISTER WILL SOON TRANSFER THEM AND FIND OUT WHY SOME A ...
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STAFF OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED SHOULD BE ROTATED ANUALLY TO AVOID CORRUPTION. THE PASSPORT OFFICE STAFF(SOME) HAVE NOW BEEN STATIONED THERE PERMANENTLY AND I HOPE THE NEW MINISTER WILL SOON TRANSFER THEM AND FIND OUT WHY SOME ARE THERE PERMANENTLY.
Boateng samuel 10 years ago

E! Ghana we have sold everything including b.e.c.e certificate Hmmm

E! Ghana we have sold everything including b.e.c.e certificate Hmmm
Dallas 10 years ago

This is no news. It's been with us for long time.

This is no news. It's been with us for long time.
Ama Badua 10 years ago

My goodness!How come we Africans can not do things right after we have learnt how others do them right. Let us go back and re-join the British Examination Syndicate of the University of London and Oxford and Cambridge as e ...
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My goodness!How come we Africans can not do things right after we have learnt how others do them right. Let us go back and re-join the British Examination Syndicate of the University of London and Oxford and Cambridge as existed in the olden times. At least, there was ample honesty in the way the examinations were conducted then; question leaks were minimal and results could not be tampered with. Better still, let's dissolve and rebuild WAEC. The Council is not performing its duties well, lately. Our educated youth used to perform outstandingly in foreign universities; they do not anymore.
Eddie 10 years ago

I find this issue very good that finally,the cat is let out of the bag officially,this pratice have been going on for very long time,I guess most people like me knew about,but didn`t have prove,and only the elite where about ...
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I find this issue very good that finally,the cat is let out of the bag officially,this pratice have been going on for very long time,I guess most people like me knew about,but didn`t have prove,and only the elite where about to poay their way through. Reason we can`t progress,or develope.
Alone 10 years ago

Not only grades but certificates,employment,placement, promotions,etc are all being paid for. In fact, it starts with the government itself.

Not only grades but certificates,employment,placement, promotions,etc are all being paid for. In fact, it starts with the government itself.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

Come on, folks, this is not the first time we have noticed corruption in our Educational System. Why are we behaving like this is a novelty expose'?

Since the 60s, Scholarships have been frequently stolen from winning Stud ...
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Come on, folks, this is not the first time we have noticed corruption in our Educational System. Why are we behaving like this is a novelty expose'?

Since the 60s, Scholarships have been frequently stolen from winning Students and sold to undeserving Students. The names of Students awarded those Scholarships/Grants, based on the merit of performance in Exams, are simply stripped and replaced with the names of Students whose parents could pay. That was common with CMB scholarships awarded at Common Entrance Examinations for admissions to Secondary Schools. I was one such student whose Scholarship was denied only to be revealed by the Peace Corps Assistant Headmaster of my School, shortly later. I was compensated by a less valued Government Scholarship that provided for just above half my Fees, following a damage control compromise between the Assistant Headmaster and the School Authorities. The CMB scholarships were normally Full Scholarships.

Furthermore, my younger brother was also denied a hard won Scholarship in a hoax of a final selection in Accra after having advanced from the Regional Regional level to the National level. That Scholarship would have offered him a chance to study abroad. His attendant guiding Tutor who traveled with him to Accra from Sunyani later told him that he got some wind of why my brother was not giving the slot he so fairly deserved. The Tutor told him that some insider at Ministry where the final selection occurred hinted that students from richly-endowed areas, like Cocoa growing areas, were discriminated against to offer the students from Accra and other Regions with less abundant Natural Resources preference to advance with such Scholarships. That was most infuriating but we felt helpless to fight for my younger brother. However, as if by some divine correction, my younger brother was able to go to Medical School in Ghana to become a Medical Officer. His further Academic advancement that took him through Holland for Postgraduate Studies and the USA where he now practices, after serving at Komfo Anokye Hospital, in Ghana, testifies to his qualification for the scholarship he was denied in Ghana.

At the time of my brother's episode, I could not believe that story behind his failure to win that scholarship and thought it was simply a cooked-up reason to placate my brother whose bubble was on the verge of collapse.

But we all know from numerous subsequent incidents involving other cheated students that the trend continued.

Similarly, we all know about what happened in the "Fa wo to begye 'Gulf' " days of the Acheampong era, which culminated in the June 4th Coup. "Kalabule" was the widely accepted norm and name given the widespread Corruption that permeated our entire Government and Business environment. Yet, we now deny any such corruption existed.

It is one thing admitting the indisputable existence of that pervasive corruption, and another denouncing the Coup as not being a justifiable solution for the malaise.

So, if by 20/20 vision we now think the Coup was an aberration to our peaceful way of life and victimized some innocent citizens, that should not preclude admitting to our steep affliction by corruption in that era.

At the Universities, admissions fell victim to corruption right from the time that pre-admission interviews were introduced. That only offered the chance for corrupt Admission Authorities to impose their will and fraud under the guise of Interview filtering.

We all know about the story of Passports as well. So, why are we denying the possibility of this corruption hapening in the BECE system?

Well, even as we are still shackled by our own vices, I cannot help ending my piece with....

Long Live Ghana!!!
DIANA BAADU 10 years ago

IT IS TIME TO CHANGE FOR BETTER ....AS GHANAIANS WE SHOULD DRESS LIKE GH'S AND MAKE OUR THINKING BE LIKE WHITE POEPLE

IT IS TIME TO CHANGE FOR BETTER ....AS GHANAIANS WE SHOULD DRESS LIKE GH'S AND MAKE OUR THINKING BE LIKE WHITE POEPLE
Es 10 years ago

Oh Ghana that is why, God will punish them

Oh Ghana that is why, God will punish them
bediako 10 years ago

it can be true because my was change na meh3 twr3 a twr3 paa ne ho grade a, me ngye ntum

it can be true because my was change na meh3 twr3 a twr3 paa ne ho grade a, me ngye ntum
m saibu 10 years ago

MieHmmm!what are saying,is corruption not part of our daily bread?

MieHmmm!what are saying,is corruption not part of our daily bread?
Damalie Michael. Jur 10 years ago

of cause yes, Corruption is really killing the poor.And thus that mean only those with enough money can make a way to the high level. The educational system in Ghana is 96% dying and that no matter what the crisis of politic ...
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of cause yes, Corruption is really killing the poor.And thus that mean only those with enough money can make a way to the high level. The educational system in Ghana is 96% dying and that no matter what the crisis of politice are, Mr. Kwame Gyesi should do all he can to help the future of others. We pray that our mother land Ghana would not be brought down by corrrrrruption.
mathias john massey 10 years ago

Mr.president the education is dyein gradually!!!

Mr.president the education is dyein gradually!!!
OFFEH VAN HARZARD 10 years ago

B.E.C.E GRADE SOLD FOR 6000 GH CIDES TO UPGRADE EDUCATIONIST GRADE

B.E.C.E GRADE SOLD FOR 6000 GH CIDES TO UPGRADE EDUCATIONIST GRADE
OFFEH ANTHONY 10 years ago

B.E.C.E GRADE SOLD FOR GHC 6000 TO UPGRADE EDUCATIONIST.

B.E.C.E GRADE SOLD FOR GHC 6000 TO UPGRADE EDUCATIONIST.
Hayford 10 years ago

Ah! how can Ghana move 4ward in edu, if dis is happenin.Gov must do samtin about dis!

Ah! how can Ghana move 4ward in edu, if dis is happenin.Gov must do samtin about dis!
Emmanuej 10 years ago

l am a student of twedaase jhs for me l dont how and why this is happening

l am a student of twedaase jhs for me l dont how and why this is happening
ODOOM EMMANUEL 10 years ago

HELP US PLEASE.

HELP US PLEASE.

BECE grades sold for Ghc6,000 - Educationist

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