WAEC shuts WASSCE centre at Adventist Day SHS over malpractice

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), following widespread examination malpractice detected at Adventist Day Senior High School in Kumasi in the ongoing 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), has relocated the school’s centre to its Kumasi regional office.

The relocation of the WASSCE centre at the Adventist Day Senior High School, according to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), is aimed at safeguarding the credibility of the WASSCE for School.

David Oppong, the Kumasi Metro director of education, disclosed the decision on Thursday (4 September) during a monitoring tour of examination centres in the Kumasi metropolis by Mayor Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi.

“So this has come to our attention of the regional director, and we are yet to do our investigation … [For now] the students have been bused to the WAEC centre to go and take the examination, and it is very unfortunate,” said David Oppong, the Kumasi Metro Director of Education.

He added, ‘The advice to the invigilators and supervisors is that they have to be extra careful … if we continue to allow and encourage these things in our schools, it means we are destroying the nation. ‘”

The Kumasi Metro Director of Education, in a discussion with Kumasi Mayor Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, said, “So we will ensure that the code of conduct and the rules governing the examination will be applied.”

He indicated that candidates from the Adventist Day Senior High Schools have since been reassigned to write the 2025 WASSCE for School paper under strict supervision at the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) regional office.

Over 15,000 final-year students from 14 government Senior High Schools in Greater Kumasi are writing this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School candidates.

This year, a total of 461,640 candidates, made up of 207,381 male candidates and 254,259 female candidates across the country, are writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School.

The 2025 West African Senior School Examination Certificate (WASSCE) for School commenced with practical examinations. The written papers will begin on August 20, 2025 and end on September 19, 2025.

In all, 65 subjects will be taken by candidates, but each candidate will take an average of eight subjects. The 2025 WASSCE for School examination will be conducted in about 701 examination centres across the country.

In a related development, Africa Education Watch (EduWatch) said it Thursday, September 4, 2025 received complaints from 13 WASSCE centres in Accra on cases of examination malpractice.

“Today, we received complaints from 13 WASSCE centres in Accra. The thing over we self. We are happy to learn that external supervisors caught some teachers & students at Accra High. For those schools that escaped, your time will come,” the Executive Director of EduWatch, Kofi Asare, said on social media.