{"id":347215,"date":"2017-08-23T06:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T06:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=347215"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:50:00","slug":"bunkpurugu-bece-candidates-to-get-shs-admission-despite-outstanding-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=347215","title":{"rendered":"Bunkpurugu BECE candidates to get SHS admission despite outstanding papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/27\/allow-stranded-bunkpurugu-bece-candidates-to-rewrite-now-activist\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>200 BECE candidates<\/strong><\/span><\/a> who were unable to write the English and Religious and Moral Education papers during this year&#8217;s examination period will be placed in various Senior High Schools to further their\u00a0education.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;hFBbMtfaEbY4ewmNik5Tx5zpQPc2MoyD&#8221;]The Head of Public Affairs of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, said the decision was taken after an agreement with\u00a0the Ghana Education Service (GES).<\/p>\n<p>Agnes Teyi-Cudjoe told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that the candidates will be placed based on their results from the papers they took.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Council the said the candidates would have to re-site the two papers in 2018. The suggestion was met with fierce opposition from various quarters including a Child&#8217;s Right advocacy group, <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/07\/allow-stranded-bunkpurugu-bece-candidates-to-resit-soon-activist\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Child Rights International<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (CRI) which took legal action against WAEC.<\/p>\n<p>The court is yet to take a decision on the matter but WAEC says despite the decision to place the students in some SHSs, they would be given the opportunity to re-sit the two papers in February next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 BECE candidates who were unable to write the English and Religious and Moral Education papers during this year&#8217;s examination period will be placed in various Senior High Schools to further their\u00a0education. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;hFBbMtfaEbY4ewmNik5Tx5zpQPc2MoyD&#8221;]The Head of Public Affairs of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, said the decision was taken after an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4523,10437,3],"class_list":["post-347215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-bece","tag-bece-results","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}