Government absorbs 2020 WASSCE fees



Government will assimilate the expenses for understudies sitting the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), President Akufo-Addo has revealed. 

Tending to the country as definite year SHS and second year Gold Track understudies get ready to come back to class, the President demonstrated that 75.4 million cedis will be spent on the activity. 

"Without precedent for our country's history, government will assimilate the WASSCE assessment expenses of the 313,837 understudies who will sit for the tests. 

"75.4 million cedis will be spent on this," President Akufo-Addo said when he gave his twelfth location since the flare-up of coronavirus in the nation. 

Ghana's schools have begun a fractional reviving as the nation bit by bit starts to revive following a long time of lockdown planned for controling the spread of coronavirus. 

Last year college understudies began the staged reviving as they answered to class on June 15. Last year SHS and second year Gold Track understudies will likewise answer to their different schools on Monday, June 22. 

The SHS understudies will be in school for about a month and a half before sitting the WASSCE over a time of about fourteen days, the President stated, repudiating a previous five-week time period given by the Education Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh. 

Additionally SHS 2 Gold Track understudies, who are coming back to finish their first semester like their Green Track partners have done, will be in school for about a month and a half before taking some time off. 

President Akufo-Addo encouraged severe adherence to all Covid-19 conventions when the schools revive. 

He said every one of the 1,167 Senior High Schools the nation over have been treated and purified. 

"Every understudy, educating and non-showing staff, invigilator and school manager, numbering about 800,000, will be furnished with three bits of reusable face veils, for example two being given tomorrow, and the third inside a fortnight. 

"An aggregate of 18,000 Veronica Buckets, 800,000 bits of 200 sanitizers, 36,000 moves of tissue paper, 36,000 gallons of fluid cleanser, and 7,000, 7,200 thermometer firearms have been appropriated," President Akufo-Addo said. 

He encouraged guardians to furnish their wards and youngsters with at leaser one face covering on their approach to class. 

Just a limit of 25 understudies will be allowed in each class. 

Throughout the day understudies in schools with lodgings will be occupant in their different motel, while day understudies, in schools without boarding offices, will drive from home, and will be required to hold fast to upgraded cleanliness conventions. 

Eating in feasting corridors will be in fitting numbers; and no guests to the schools will be permitted. There will be no mass social occasions and no brandishing exercises. 

Be that as it may, strict exercises, under the new conventions, will be allowed. Social separating and the wearing of face veils are compulsory in our schools. 

President Akufo-Addo guaranteed all guardians and gatekeepers that legislature is resolved to ensure the lives of the 800,000 understudies, educators and non-showing staff, who will be coming back to class from Monday. 

"I will be the last individual to put the lives of the 'Akufo-Addo graduates' in danger. It bears rehashing that they should all hold fast carefully to upgraded individual cleanliness and social separating conventions, consistently wash their hands with cleanser under running water, shun shaking hands, and wear covers to secure themselves as well as other people. These principles apply to us all," he expressed 

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