Fallout of WASSCE results: President tasks Education Minister, GES to review Chief Examiner’s Report

December 5, 2025

President John Dramani Mahama has blamed the poor performance of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination candidates to years of neglect of basic education.

He said the “inability to send the capitation grants, ensuring that we have quality teachers at a foundational level, at a basic level, because it is that level that prepares the child for secondary and tertiary education.

“And once you don’t get that level right, you will just send the child through a conveyor belt like a factory, and when it comes out at the end, it will be picked out by quality control and said that this one did not do well,” the President said at the official launch of a STEM Box for basic schoolchildren in Accra.