{"id":4053,"date":"2024-08-29T20:57:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2024-08-29T20:57:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:57:14","slug":"government-allocates-gh%c2%a250-million-to-support-wassce-bece-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=4053","title":{"rendered":"Government allocates GH\u00a250 million to support WASSCE, BECE exams&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WAEC-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WAEC-logo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WAEC-logo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WAEC-logo-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has allocated GH\u00a250 million to the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to support the administration of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement issued on Thursday, the Ministry of Education (MoE) highlighted that this funding underscores the government\u2019s dedication to meeting its financial commitments to WAEC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disbursement ensures that the Council\u2019s operations will proceed smoothly and without interruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe wish to reassure all stakeholders, especially students, parents, guardians, and the general public, of our dedication to sustaining an environment that fosters seamless, efficient, and high-quality education for all Ghanaian students,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June this year, the government paid WAEC an amount of GH\u00a247 million for the conduct of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, WAEC had only received GH\u20b52.3 million of the GH\u20b595.83 million debt. This led the council to request at least 50% of the total amount to conduct the examination and additional funds to process and release the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-29-at-19.02.28_d3524a1c-754x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-29-at-19.02.28_d3524a1c-754x1024.jpg 754w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-29-at-19.02.28_d3524a1c-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-29-at-19.02.28_d3524a1c-768x1044.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-29-at-19.02.28_d3524a1c.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has allocated GH\u00a250 million to the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to support the administration of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}