WAEC commends Ghana
The 63rd Annual Council Meeting of the West African Examinations Council (WEAC) has congratulated Ghana on sweeping the WAEC’s international excellence awards for 2014.
Seventeen-year-old Master Mickail Hasan, formerly of the Ghana Secondary/Technical School, Takoradi, emerged the overall best candidate in Ghana. He also topped all the candidates who wrote the WASSCE in West Africa.
A former student of St Augustine’s College, Master Blaykyi Kenyah, was the overall second best, both in Ghana and in West Africa, while Master Henry Enninful Archibald, formerly of Mfantsipim School, was adjudged the overall third best candidate both in Ghana and West Africa.
The feat is the fifth in succession.
The award winners emerged from 2,018,497 candidates who sat the May/June 2014 WASSCE in The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Master Hasan also won the Augustus Bandele Oyediran Award for being the best candidate in West Africa.
The meeting advised the other member countries to learn from the educational system of Ghana which produced the top winners.
The commendations were made at the opening of the 63rd Annual Council Meeting, during which the three Ghanaian candidates received their prizes in Lagos, Nigeria.
The meeting, which was climaxed with the international excellence awards, was attended by all member countries of WAEC.
Members of the Ghanaian delegation to the meeting included the Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, Mr Enoch H. Cobbinah; the acting Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Mr Jacob Kor, and the Head of the Ghana National Office of WAEC, the Very Rev. Sam Nii Nmai Ollennu.
The current international winners were earlier this month awarded the National Distinction Awards for best performance in the 2014 WASSCE in Ghana.
During the national ceremony organised by the WAEC in Accra, the first prize winner was awarded a full scholarship by Universal Merchant Bank Ghana Limited to undertake any course of study in a tertiary institution in Ghana.
In addition, the bank gave laptops to all the award winners.
FirstBanc Financial Services Ltd presented a cheque for GH¢2,000 to the second winner; while Enterprise Trustees Ltd presented the third winner with a cheque for GH¢1,000.
From WAEC, the first winner received a cash prize of US$1,000; US$750 for the second and US$500 for the third. The winners received the cedi equivalent of the money.
