Education

The spokesperson for the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu, has called for comprehensive investigations and tougher sanctions against teachers implicated in examination malpractice, especially at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) level. Speaking on GTV, Sheikh Shaibu raised concerns about increasing pressure on schools to maintain high academic rankings, suggesting that the intense competition…

Final-year senior high school (SHS) students in Ghana will tomorrow join their counterparts across West Africa to begin the May–June 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, starting with Oral English. According to statistics from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), a total of 509,862 candidates will sit for this year’s…

President John Dramani Mahama has signed the Legal Education Reform Bill (2025) into law, bringing an end to the Ghana School of Law’s 66-year exclusive control over professional legal training in Ghana. The new law allows accredited universities to offer professional law programmes, a major change many stakeholders have advocated for over the years. Since October…

The Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has urged the government to urgently clarify whether prospective students, including backlog candidates, will still be required to sit for entrance examinations to the Ghana School of Law following the passage of the Legal Education Reforms Bill, 2026. His concerns come after President John Dramani Mahama assented to…