GES to build credible data on NGOs
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr. Jacob A. M. Kor, has called for credible data on NGOs that have flooded the schools with all sorts of programmes.
He said this had become necessary for close monitoring of their activities and to get feedback by way of reports.
That, he indicated, would help to identify those giving good support to the effort at raising the quality of education and smoke out the fake ones.
Mr. Kor was addressing a meeting of the Conference of Directors of Education in Kumasi.
The meeting was held under the theme “Investing in quality education for positive transformation of the youth for national development” and in attendance were regional and district directors from across the country.
He used the occasion to express concern about the situation where head teachers had been registering unqualified candidates to write the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
“This state of affairs is unacceptable”, he said, and urged the directors to take steps to stop the practice.
Mr. Kor told the meeting that “in cases where these reports reach us before the examination, we nullify their registration. Unfortunately, most of these reports reach the GES long after the examination and we are unable to take action”.
He said the other source of embarrassment was examination malpractices which despite stringent measures had kept recurring.
He said “we continue to have cases of malpractices by students and this time round with the involvement of teachers”.
“It is unimaginable to hear that some unscrupulous teachers are able to scan examination questions onto their websites and then pass them on to examination centres to help students to cheat.
The law must take its course. Such acts of indiscipline must not be allowed to derail our system.”
Mr. John Alexander Ackon, the Ashanti Regional Minister, asked the directors to do some introspection – to identify the causes of the poor performance of students in the West African Senior High School Examinations (WASSCE) and come out with workable solutions.
Source: GNA