The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it is baffled by complaints by the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) which has called for an audit of this year’s BECE as a result of some discrepancies and alleged biases against their members.
The Association says it has received reports from member schools across the country alleging inconsistencies in this year’s results, including grades that do not reflect candidates’ academic performance and subjects that candidates allegedly did not register for.
The Association has called on WAEC to investigate the concerns and reconcile any affected results.
However, WAEC dismisses the claims as unfounded, noting they have already held a stakeholder conference to explain their grading system, emphasising they show no favouritism to any group.
“It baffles me because about three years ago we held a forum where we invited all manner of stakeholders and particularly representatives of private schools association in this country and the idea was to explain to them because those complaints had started coming about WAEC not being fair to private schools, WAEC using a different marking scheme for candidates in private schools than those in public schools,” he said on Ghana Tonight on TV3 Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
He said “the office decided to hold a forum where we explained the grading system to every single person who was present for them to understand that we do not have a division or a separation of private schools from public schools.”
According to Mr. Kapi, “all of them are considered one cohort and therefore, there was no truth in all the allegations being made about some of them are favoured over other people.”
He explained that the Council never expected such allegations from the private schools, after the education given to the stakeholders, saying it is either some people have deliberately chosen to have issues with WAEC or not to accept the explanation they’ve been given.
“So after that we thought that we had made it clear to them the kind of scheme or grading system that we use so they could also explain to their people. But for these to begin to crop up again, it means that maybe some people either have chosen not to accept whatever we put out there or are simply being mischievous,” Mr. Kapi noted.
Meanwhile, he has asked those with concerns to reach out to either the sector ministry, the regulator, –Ghana Education Service –or the Council itself for redress.
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