The Ablekuma North Municipal Director of Education, Ebenezer Perry Ofori, has reiterated the Ghana Education Service’s (GES) commitment to take necessary measures against unqualified students who are beating the educational system to write the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
According to him, the move by GES is to ensure there is no distortion in the system for qualified students who are in Form 3 to enroll in senior high schools.
Speaking in an interview with Max Morning Dew in Accra on Tuesday, Mr. Ofori noted that there was pressure on the educational system; therefore, junior high school (JHS) students, most especially form one and two students, were beating the system to join Form 3, putting qualified students at a disadvantage.
He said the number of students who write BECE is increasing every year and noted that a total of 600,900 final-year JHS students across Ghana wrote the 2023 BECE in August.
The total candidature, he said, represented an increase of 49,049 over the 2022 figure of 553,408. Out of the total number, 300,404 were males, while 300,496 were females.
Mr. Ofori insisted that it was an offense for students below Form 3 to flout the GES policy of sitting in class for the required number of years to meet the curriculum assessment of the school.
“I don’t know what will be done to them, but GES is fishing out those children. We are running an educational system, and the system has been structured. The child must do so for a few years. Some children are exceptionally good, but that doesn’t mean that you have to beat the system to go and write it,” he added.
Mr. Ofori advised parents and head teachers to fully cooperate with the GES to reduce the pressure on the country’s educational system by making all students meet the GES policy before undertaking the BECE examination.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
