The deputy minister of education has dispelled rumor that the basic education certificate examination will be terminated by the government due to exam malpractice WAEC records every year.
According to him there has not been any discussion or policy of sort to terminate the BECE examination. He therefore urge parents and the general public to disregard such notion.
He explained that, the West Africa Examination Council {WAEC} remains government partner in education development in the country.
Rev. Forjour added that, government will keep resourcing WAEC so it would continue to discharge its mandate as required of them.
The Deputy Minister for Education further announced that there are enough spaces to admit all 600,714 candidates writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into the over 900 Senior High Schools (SHS)/Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions.
Rev. Ntim forjour urged the candidates to pass the BECE so they could also benefit from the novelty Free SHS programme. He reminded the candidates to focus on what they can do and desist from accepting any sort of help from anyone since they had different sets of questions although they were in the same examination hall.
A story filed by Emmanuel Nii Afra Quakupong Sackey, the Deputy Minister lamented the few isolated infractions at certain examination centres across the country which he described as very unfortunate.
Rev. Ntim Fordjour announced this when he interacted with some BECE candidates who were writing their examination papers at the St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School in Accra.
The Deputy Minister who was accompanied by the Greater Accra Director of Education, Mr Stephen Bamfo assured the candidates of the government’s preparedness to put in place measures to ensure that they received the best of support towards their education.
“Free High School (FSH)/ Free Technical and Vocational Education and Training (FTVET) await you so work hard to benefit from the novel policy to shape your future dreams”. He said.
He stated that those involved would be dealt with drastically to serve as a lesson to others as well as deter them from thinking about examination malpractices.
Rev. Ntim Fordjour was upbeat that the arrest of the few teachers was evident to the stringent measures put in place to curb all forms of exams malpractices.
