BECE has become an albatross - IES

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February 13, 2017 1:50 PM

Dr. Prince Armah has revealed that students have deliberately been failing in the Basic Education Certificate Examination

The Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IES), Dr.Prince Armah, has revealed that access to Senior High Schools is critically reduced by the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), which records significant failures.

READ ALSO:Malls in Ghana: Kumasi City Mall to open in May 2017“BECE has become an albatross on our neck in which students are deliberately failed because of the system; I have made this argument for a very long time because of how the assessment process is done. So to expand access to SHS, you will have to look at scrapping the BECE,”

READ ALSO: Suhum: Two arrested for allegedly possessing human partsHe is of the view that the BECE only approved a few above-average students qualified to pursue secondary education, a selection process he believed was flawed.He further added that students who move on to Senior High School are very often “coming from affluent or good background and a large proportion of individuals we want to focus to uplift them are coming from very deprived areas and that is what we need to do, in terms of addressing the disparity of how to get more people from these areas to go to SHSs and also scrapping the BECE”.

READ ALSO: U-turn? Sam George beats retreat on claims ex-officials bought 271 carsReacting to the recent announcement by President Nana Akufo-Addo that the Free SHS policy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would commence in September.For him, the priority of government should be ensuring access to quality education for deprived people at the basic level.

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