Dr Clement Apaak, the deputy ranking member on the Education Committee in Parliament, has said that the narrative on the 2023 WASSCE result by the supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is fraudulent.
He believes it is dishonest to compare the results of Ghanaian students who wrote the regional-level WASSCE before 2020, to those who wrote the customized Ghana WASSCE or GHASSCE, from 2020 to the present.
Dr Apaak cited an example from 2014 when three Ghanaian students who participated in the award competition with other students from other WAEC member nations swept all three top awards.
He added that the overall top candidate, Hasan Mickail, a former student of Ghana Secondary Technical School [GSTS] in the Western Region, who was the best candidate in the General Science Programme, both at the national and international level, also won the Bandele Award in the whole of West Africa.
Dr Apaak raised a question about why Ghana has not abandoned the Ghana specific WASSCE [GHASSCE] to rejoin the regional-level examination or WASSCE in this post covid era.
He added that until Ghanaian students write the same examinations at the regional level, their performance cannot be compared to their pre-covid [pre FSHS] seniors or their other West African peers.
