The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has commended the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) for making giant strides towards curtailing examination malpractices in the country.
He pledged the Education Ministry’s preparedness to continue collaborating with WAEC and other stakeholders towards winning the fight against exam malpractice in the country.
Dr. Adutwum gave the commendation after visiting the Accra College of Education Demonstration School to monitor the ongoing BECE on Monday.
A total of 570,461 candidates are currently writing the exams in 2,123 centres across the country. The exams will be used as the means of determining the qualification for the candidates’ selection of courses at Senior High as well as Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions next academic year.
Innovations
Dr. Adutwum said that although the serialization of exam questions, which started three years ago, had been successful, they were considering introducing e-testing.
This, he indicated, would lead to a computer selecting a set of questions for every student and would prevent exam malpractices.
He wished all the candidates writing the exams well, and prayed that they work very hard so they pass well, enabling them to continue their education.
The Ayawaso West Municipal Director of Education, Madam Margaret Kaba, assured the Minister that everything possible would be done to ensure that the exams were conducted without any incident.
She mentioned that a total of 1,345 candidates were writing the BECE in the Municipality, of which 695 were boys and the remaining 650 were girls.
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