The housemistress of Wesley Senior High School in Konongo, Ashanti Region, has been assaulted after she prevented a candidate sitting for this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) from allegedly cheating during the exams.
Rev Agnes Gaisie, the headmistress of the school, detailed that after the Christian Religious Studies (CRS) paper on Friday, September 5, a male student assaulted the housemistress.
According to her, the student was made to apologise, and was subsequently taken through counselling.
However, on Sunday, September 7, there was a stone pelting incident occurred in the evening.
The police had to intervene to maintain order at the Wesley Senior High School in Konongo, Ashanti Region.
The headmistress revealed that an investigation is ongoing to identify the students involved, adding that the situation has been brought under control.
In related news, Samuel Armah, a teacher at Ghana College SHS, and two university students, Kwame Oteng Nkansah and Amedeka James, have been jailed for a total of 20 months in prison.
The three have been jailed for their involvement in examination malpractice during the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The convicts were arrested in Kasoa while engaging in various exam-related offences.
They were sentenced by the Kasoa-Ofaakor District Magistrate’s Court.
Samuel Armah, a teacher who was serving as an invigilator, was caught dictating answers to candidates with the answers to Social Studies Paper 1 on his mobile phone.
He was sentenced to eight months in prison and fined 80 penalty units.
Another convict, a Level 100 student of Accra Technical University, Kwame Oteng Nkansah, was caught impersonating Quayson Francis Atta of Ghana College SHS and was jailed for six months and fined 80 penalty units.
Additionally, Amedeka James, a level 100 University of Ghana was also jailed for six months and fined 80 penalty units for impersonating his twin brother, Amedeka Justice, during the same paper.
In related news, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has closed the Adventist Day Senior High School examination centre in Kumasi and relocated its candidates to the WAEC regional office
This follows a widespread malpractice during the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
David Oppong, the Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education, revealed that all 936 candidates from the school have been reassigned to write their English Language paper under strict supervision at the WAEC office.
David Oppong stated, “This has come to the attention of the Regional Director, and we are yet to conduct our investigation. For now, the students have been bused to the WAEC centre to take the examination, and it is very unfortunate”.
“We will ensure that the code of conduct and the rules governing the examination are applied,” he added.
A total of 461,640 students, including 207,381 males and 254,259 females, are sitting for the 2025 WASSCE nationwide.
Meanwhile, renowned educationist Prof Stephen Adei has highlighted that cheating in schools reflects the wider decay in national values.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, Prof Stephen Adei stated, “What is happening is a reflection of the moral degradation or degeneration in our society. When you see politicians openly bribing their way, giving money in the open to everybody else. When we see galamsey, people say that ‘so long as we get money, even if we poison the whole nation, we don’t care’. Corruption in the public sector, the decadence in the homes, because it’s parents who are sponsoring these”.
“Now the question is why? There are a lot of ills in our society and pressure to perform, and, irrespective of how you do it. So people now have a lot of mansions they cannot explain and cars that their income does not support. And that is going down into the schools to say that once you achieve, irrespective of how, society will recognise you. Then there is a very big problem, which the World Bank in 2016 called schooling without learning,” Prof. Adei warned.
Prof Stephen Adei cautioned that Ghanaian children go through primary school totally illiterate.
He added, “Our primary schools in the public sector; practically, the children go through school totally illiterate. If you go to a place like Togo, by the second year in primary school, every child is literate.
And if it is not addressed, these people will therefore go through and will have a way of getting some certificates anyway. And because of that, most of the children have very poor study habits,” he explained.