Gov’t to pay 2018 BECE registration fees for candidates

The government will absorb the registration fees of 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in public junior high schools.

The registration fee is GHC 75 per candidate in both private and government schools.

This was contained in a memo from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to the Metropolitan, Municipal, District and Directors of Education and sighted by Oman FM.

The registration for the candidates is scheduled to take place from November 13 to December 15, 2017.

Students resitting are to register as private candidates.

WAEC warned the directors of education in the memo that it will “nullify entries of private schools that select school types wrongly and thereby do not pay fees.”

This marks the Akufo-Addo government’s latest intervention in public education after the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy which started in with the 2017/2018 academic year SHS entrants.

The BECE is required for both the certification and selection into Senior High Schools and Technical Institutions.

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