Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, says getting D7 in the WASSCE should not mark the end of one’s educational journey.

Currently, most universities are reluctant to admit students who score D7 in any core subject for a degree programme.

However, reacting to the situation in an interview on Citi FM, he explained that diploma courses do accept D7 and thus those that fall within this category should apply for diploma courses to further their education.

He noted that students can go on to pursue a degree after completing their diploma courses.

Meanwhile, he indicated that there are plans of expanding admissions into degree courses for students who score D7 by next year. Dr. Adutwum, however, explained that it will not be a straight forward ride into the course.

Students, he said, will have to take a pre-university course in the core subject they had the D7 to be able to qualify for the degree programme.

“For degree programmes, the core subjects, there are some restrictions and the current position that GTECH is now considering to allow for next year’s enrolment is the fact that if you have let’s say D7 in Mathematics, the whole idea is that it’s telling the programme especially where Mathematics is very much needed, that you’re a weakling in the subject.

“So the compromise is that you do Math 99 which is a below university Mathematics class that we used to do, called post O-Level Mathematics. Post O-Level Mathematics was not a university level Mathematics course, but we were doing it in Land Economy, we were doing it because they thought that you did not do A-Level Mathematics and because you did not do A-Level Mathematics you need a stronger foundation in Mathematics and therefore do post O-Level Mathematics.

“There were a number of degree programmes at Tech (KNUST) that were doing post O-Level Mathematics. In essence, these were not college level Mathematics, it was beyond O-Level Mathematics, almost like you were repeating A-Level on campus,” he explained.