The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, an Education Policy Research and Advocacy Organisation, Kofi Asare, said they are not convinced about assurances from WAEC that this year’s BECE would be leakage-free.
He said per historical antecedents in WAEC related examinations, he could only hope that the examining body would put its house in order to prevent the “scare of what took place in this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination.”
Head of Public Affairs, West African Examinations Council Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the Council had put in place stringent security measures to prevent leakages in this year’s examinations.
She said officials of the National Intelligence Bureau monitored the production process – printing, sorting and packaging of the papers- and confident that there would be no leakages of the papers before and during the exams.
“The Council has also increased the number of depots storing confidential materials under strict surveillance to ensure that the papers did not leak before and during the examinations,” she said.
On his part Head of Public Relations, Ghana National Association of Teachers, (GNAT) Peter Korda said they expected the BECE results to be better this year despite long COVID-19 break.
He said teachers did their best to catch up with the curriculum after the 10-month break in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“COVID-19 pushed teachers to go the extra mile to adequately prepare students for the examinations through extra classes and online teaching and assignments,” he said.
He advised the candidates to adhere to rules and instructions of the exams.
