Don’t Pay Any BECE Registration Fee, Gov’t Has Absorbed It All

…Education Minister tells students

Minister of Education, Yaw Osei Adutwum, has told final year Junior High School students not to succumb to any demand by any school authority to pay registration fees for the next Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

He made the call in a radio interview according to reports.

“The government has absorbed the BECE registration fees of all public Junior High Schools. It is not true we have directed heads of schools to demand money for the registration,” he is quoted as saying.

The call comes in the wake of reports that authorities in some schools are demanding registration fees from final year students and their parents.

This is in spite of the fact that last year, the government announced a policy to absorb registration fees for all BECE candidates in public schools under the government’s academic intervention support programme.

Meanwhile, the Minister is quoted as saying the Ghana Education Service (GES) will soon come out with the date for the commencement of the next BECE.

“Because of the change from the semester system to trimester system this academic year, we are still working on a suitable date to administer the 2022 BECE for School. The GES and WAEC will announce the date soon,” he stated.

He disclosed that the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in the first week of March 2022 will release the provisional results of Junior High School (JHS) graduates who sat for the 2021 edition of BECE school.