{"id":8002,"date":"2024-08-30T07:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2024-08-30T07:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:01:19","slug":"government-pays-waec-ghc50m-to-cater-for-bece-and-wassce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8002","title":{"rendered":"Government pays WAEC GHC50m to cater for BECE and WASSCE."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Ministry of Education has announced that an amount of Fifty million (GHC50 million) has been released to the West African Examination Council (WAEC).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amount, which is part payment of its indebtedness to the examination body, is to support the conduct of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is contained in a press release dated August 29 and signed by the Spokesperson of the Ministry, Kwasi Kwarteng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis disbursement reaffirms the Government\u2019s commitment to fulfilling its financial obligations to WAEC, ensuring that the Council\u2019s operations continue without interruption,\u201d a part of the press release read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe wish to reassure all stakeholders, especially students, parents, guardians, and the general public, of our dedication to sustaining an environment that fosters seamless, efficient, and high-quality education for all Ghanaian students,\u201d Mr Kwarteng assured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education has announced that an amount of Fifty million (GHC50 million) has been released to the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The amount, which is part payment of its indebtedness to the examination body, is to support the conduct of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the West African Senior School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,41],"tags":[2493,1036],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general-news","tag-ministry-of-education-2","tag-waec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}