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The three (3) overall best students from the 2023 West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) were commended by Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister of Education, in his office on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, during a courtesy visit by Dr. Eric Nkansah, the Director-General of GES.
He thanked the students for representing Ghana with pride and exhorted them to pursue excellence in their chosen fields of study at the tertiary level.
The winners were praised and encouraged to utilize the honors as a platform to earn numerous more accolades for themselves, their families, and the nation as a whole by the Minister of Education.
“Life is a journey; you begin today, work hard, and by the time you realize you are up there,” he said.
The International Award recipients were given two book recommendations by Dr. Adutwum. “Apart from the Bible, research and read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, which discusses the “Ten Thousand Hour Rule,” and Heroes Journey by Joseph Campbell. Let these books lead you, and you will rise to become the best in the world.”
Dr Adutwum said this when he hosted the three award winners in his office in Accra.
For their part, the three award winners appreciated the Minister for the warm reception and assured him of their continuous commitment to academic excellence.
On Tuesday, 19th March 2024, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the three were awarded at the 72nd Annual WAEC Council Meeting as the best three (3) out of the 2,327,342 students from the five (5) member countries who sat for the WASSCE 2023.
Amo-Kodieh Leonard Kofi Marton from the St James Seminary Senior High School came first, Dzandu Selorm from Labone Senior High School placed second and Daniel Asenso-Gyambibi also from St James Seminary placed third. The three topped the 2,327,342 candidates who sat for the WASSCE (SC) 2023 in the five-member countries of WAEC.
For the first prize, the overall best student took home $1500, the second-place winner received a second-prize award of $1200 and the third-prize winner received $900 from the WAEC Endowment Fund.
Currently, Mr Amo-Kodieh and Mr Dzandu are reading Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology while Mr Asenso-Gyambibi is a Computer Engineering student at the Ashesi University.
The International Excellence Awards for WASCCE for School Candidates are presented to the three (3) overall best candidates from the member countries that subscribe to the WASSCE, namely the Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
Representing Ghana at the awards ceremony were council members of the WAEC, led by the Chief Government nominee, who is also the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Eric Nkansah; Ghana’s Non-Council Member on the Board of Trustees of the WAEC Endowment Fund, Nana Appiagyei Dankawoso I; the Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, Mrs Mamle Andrews; the Head of National Office (HNO), Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, and all the other members.
The International Excellence Awards was instituted in 1985 to reward and celebrate candidates with outstanding performance in the Council’s Senior High School Certificate examinations.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
