Publicise findings of BECE leak; BNI challenged
The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has called on the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to make public its findings on the massive leak of five papers in the June 2015 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
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“We are saying that the BNI must be bold enough to come out to discuss the findings of the massive leakage of the five papers during the BECE in June 2015. We are interested in the outcome of that investigation,” the Council Chairman for GNECC, Mr Bright Appiah, said at a press conference in Accra yesterday.
The press conference was on the theme: “Recurrent examination malpractices – The need for a permanent solution now.”
Mr Appiah explained that “as we speak now, we have not seen the findings of that investigation or what action the council is going to take based on the investigation”.
Strengthening WAEC systems
Mr Appiah called on the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to strengthen its systems to be able to deal with examination malpractices.
He expressed the fear that the failure of WAEC to strengthen its systems could result in credibility problems for its certificates.
Mr Appiah further urged WAEC to take the necessary measures to block the loopholes in the organisation of all of its examinations.
Prosecution
He appealed to WAEC to not shield any of its staff who engaged in any form of malpractice.
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He also called on the Attorney-General’s Department to speedily tackle cases of examination malpractice that were brought before it for advice.
Mr Appiah stated that WAEC did not have the power to prosecute and gave an assurance that the coalition and other non-governmental organisations in education would follow up the case where a police officer, a GES employee and a driver were arrested for allegedly opening examination question papers and distributing the questions via social media, while transporting the questions to an examination centre in 2014.
2015 WASSCE
Referring to the recently released West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results, Mr Appiah said the massive malpractices were a worrying trend, citing similar cases in 2014, 2013 and 2012.
“It is the view of the GNECC that this recurrence of examination malpractices and subsequent cancellation of papers is highly unacceptable and it is about time WAEC and other relevant regulatory bodies put in place measures to address this problem with utmost urgency,” he stressed.
Mr Appiah described the current WAEC assessment system as “inefficient” and blamed it on the “high level of irregularities reported year after year”.
Parents
Mr Appiah urged parents to desist from participating in examination malpractice because, “the signal is that some parents spend a lot of money in buying examination papers for their children”.
He assured students that they could pass their examinations without having to engage in any examination malpractice and encouraged parents to imbibe such values in their children.