The Wise Bird is always very much concerned especially when it comes to educational matters. This is because to him (the bird) is of the view that, without education, a nation will find it very difficult to develop.

Education has always been his priority even before the advent of the Free Quality Education (FQE), the bird passion has always been for education.  The Wise Bird was a school teacher himself in the animal kingdom and that is more the reason he is very much passionate about education.

From the data the wise bird collected so far shows that, 27,097 candidates from a total of 146,179 students across 816 schools participated in the last senior examination, WASSCE.

According to surveys conducted by the bird also shows that, 238 results have so far released, 27,097 results withheld, 220 students met University entry, 19.7% pass rate in English, 46% pass rate in Mathematics.

The question the Wise Bird wants to ask is why results are always withheld to the disadvantage of the students and by extension the parents.

By the way, who is responsible for the withholding of the results?

Is it the Ministry of Education or the West African Examination Council?

As usual the bird always wants to get the views of other people in respect of issues of national concerns.

Those the bird spoke to have different views to the withholding of results, some say this is not the first time for results to be withheld, but always as that happens no serious reason is ever given for them being withheld. Maybe the only flimsy reason given to the public was and still is due to examination malpractice.

Some people have said that the National Primary School Examination (NPSE) ever in its formation no results have been withheld of it, but why always is the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE)?

The Wise Bird stands to be corrected on the claims he makes and so are they not the same teachers invigilating all the examinations?

The question of withholding results should have been a thing of the past now; the Ministry together with the Examination council should have devised a new method to avert examination malpractice in public exams.