Wa Municipal BECE Performance improves | Education

In the municipality of Wa, the performance of the examination of basic education certificate has increased from 46% during the academic year 2016/2017 to 75.7% over the course of the year. 39, 2017/2018 school year.

This, said Alhaji Tahiru Issahaku Moomin, director general of the Wa Municipality (MCE), due to the priority given to basic education by the central government and the Municipal Assembly, which resulted in mbadive investments in the sector.

Alhaji Moomin, who spoke at the first edition of the series "Meet the Press" for the municipal and district bademblies of the Upper West region, said that investing in an education of quality would help young people to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to face the competition. with the best of the country.

"The Wa Municipal Assembly has invested heavily in basic education for the sole purpose of ensuring that students in the commune excel in the Basic Education Certificate Exam (BECE) so that they can take advantage of free high school free program, "said the MCE.

The purpose of the forum was to strengthen relations between the media and the Assembly in order to better educate and inform the population of the municipality on the implementation of government policies and programs.

The MCE stated that the Assembly was presenting a project entitled "A pupil, a dictionary", which has so far seen the distribution of 7000 dictionaries among students of basic education during the course of the year. the academic year 2017/2018.

Alhaji Moomin said the remarkable achievements in the field of education had not only motivated students from different schools in the Municipality to learn more, but had led to unprecedented levels of enrollment and retention of students. students and teachers in the school system.

He added that the badembly, resulting from a sustained collaboration between the Common Fund of District Assemblies (DACF), the Urban Development Grant (UDG), the Ministry of Education, the District Development Mechanism (SDF) ) and the Social Investment Fund (SIF), had built many school structures and had developed them. .

Dr. Hafiz Bin-Salih, regional minister, press, department heads and individual members of the public participated in the first meeting with the press series in Wa.