President John Dramani Mahama has raised concerns over the 2025 West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) results.
He has, therefore, charged the Minister of Education to conduct an analysis of the Chief Examiner’s report.
He was speaking at the national launch of STEMBox for basic schools in Accra on Thursday, December 4.
“It is mind-boggling that with the same teachers, the same factors in play, just from one batch to another, one batch, does so disastrously, and so we need to get to the bottom of it,” President Mahama said.
“But it also emphasizes the issue of foundational learning.”
He observed that basic education seems to have been neglected for several years now.
“Inability to send the capitation grants, ensuring that we have quality teachers at the foundational level, at a basic level; because it is that level that prepares the child for the 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 say that this one did not do well.”