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UNESCO applauds Ghana for integrating AI into school curricula

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Ghana has been commended by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of 15 countries of its 198 member states to successfully integrate Artificial Intelligence into its school curricula.

This was disclosed by the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Eric Nkansah who participated in a panel discussion on the Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in school curricula and the AI Competency Framework for Students developed by UNESCO.

“Ghana was applauded highly for being one of 15 countries out of 198 member States to have successfully integrated AI into our school curricula. I took the opportunity to share Ghana’s success stories with the world and learnt from the other member States,” Eric said in a social media post.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recognized Ghana’s achievement at the 2024 edition of the Digital Learning Week event organized by the United Nations agency in Paris.

Meanwhile, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) after marking the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) expressed worry over some candidate’s use of Artificial Intelligence to answer questions of the examination.

The Head of Public Affairs at WAEC, John Kapi in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM said that candidates from 235 Senior High Schools were found to have provided AI-generated answers, prompting the withholding of their results.

The spokesperson for the not-for-profit-making organization (WAEC) said his outfit detected that candidates who sat for the International examination copied incorrect answers provided by the AI platform.

“One candidate, upon receiving the response, “I’m not familiar with the term you have used,” replicated the same reply in the answer booklet.

Another candidate wrote, “I cannot detect the term you have used,” indicating clear evidence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage,” the WAEC spokesman said stressing that the emergence of AI as a cheating method presents a new and significant challenge.