Exams Ethics International calls for cooperation to stop cheating
The Exams Ethics International Ghana, at the close of a regional workshop in Ho on Thursday, has issued a 12-point communiqué appealing for collaboration among stakeholders in human resource development in the sanitization of conduct of exams in the country.
The workshop on the theme Exam Ethics: a Prerequisite for Competent Human Resource Development was attended by school heads and educators from across the region.
The communiqué signed by Kofi Ashiboe-Mensah, Country Director Exams Ethics Ghana, recommended the incorporation of exam ethics into the “religious and moral education curriculum at all levels of our educational system” and clubs formed in all schools.
It also called for the strengthening of institutional structures to ensure the “effective administration of the examination process”.
The communiqué demanded that rules governing the examination process should be applied firmly without fear or favour.
It also touched on evaluation of the scholarship system, asking that the educational system should “de-emphasize the craving for certification at the expense of meritorious and performance learning through the continuous assessment”.
The communiqué advised that “the Inspectorate Division of the Ghana Education Service (GES) must be autonomous and independent to facilitate the inspection of the teaching and the learning process in our schools”.
It also said that educational reforms should be “strategic and stable to eliminate systemic failures”.
Issues discussed during the three-day seminar include harnessing talents through ethical practices in the Basic and High Schools, the responsibility of the media in facilitating competent Human resource development and using cotemporary security systems and intelligent surveillance to combat examination malpractices.
Source: GNA