Let's ensure that BECE is free from malpractices

February 25, 2011
Kodie (Ash), Feb. 25, GNA - The Afigya Kwabre District Director of Education, Mr Ignatius Mwinbe-Er Der has urged teachers to adequately prepare their students for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and ensure that there were zero cases of malpractices.

It should not be lost on anyone that cheating in examination creates a bad image, not only for the candidate, but the school and the district as a whole.

He was addressing a meeting with owners of private schools in the area at Kodie, to coincide with the private school week celebration.

The meeting discussed among others, school fees, the need to obtain operational certificate, inspection of their premises and the private schools relations with the education directorate.

Mr Der encouraged them to engage qualified teachers to improve the quality of teaching in the schools.

There was also the need for them to collaborate with the directorate and abide by the rules and regulations set out by the Ghana Education Service (GES), warning that any breaches would not be accepted.

He expressed concern about the situation where some of them have been operating without licenses and said this needed to change.

The Education Director said a team had been set up to go round and any school found not to have met the required standards would be shut down.

Exposing school kids to danger by carrying them in rickety school buses and over-loading those buses must also end.

Mr Ernest Appauh, the District Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools said they were determined to partner the Government to make quality education accessible to all children in the district and called for support.

GNA