WASSCE candidates clash with invigilators in a School in Kukurantumi Ghana-Report
Many are begining to breath a sigh of relief as the much awaited and talked about West Africa Senuour School Certicate Examination- WASSCE 2020 ,has started with many compromises being made by stakeholders, even as the safety of the children due to the pandemic had been an issue on the front burner for consideration.
The comencement of the examination however hadn't been without its challenges due to the facts that the rules and guidelines being put in place to avoid the spread of the novel Corona Virus (Covid-19) seems to be affecting the psychy of the CANDITATES and also school owners.
Some of the challeges are emernating from the sitting arrangements which investigation have it, has not in any ways met with the desires of the students who perhaps may have the ulterior motive of miggling easily in the exams halls for malpractise. Also some of the invigators are being reported to be over zealous ans making things difficult for CANDITATES and private schools alike.
Report being monitored on the conduct of the exams in Ghana where subjects like Social Studies had already been taken indicated that Some candidates in the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination have clashed with invigilators at a SHS in Akyem Kukurantumi over alleged intimidation
The swift intervention by armed police personnel from Akyem Tafo and Some BNI officials helped restore calm Thursday morning.
According to the students, the special deployment of external invigilators supervising the examination have been very strict disallowing them to even go out to urinate.
The students say the situation is affecting them psychologically hence unable to write the exams
Meanwhile, there is similar tension building up at Only Believe Senior High Technical School, a private school in Akyem Kukurantumi over similar alleged intimidation .
A little over 1,000 candidates are sitting the exams in the school. Some of the students on Wednesday protested against the situation.
On Thursday they went beserk after the Social Studies paper and deflated the car tyre of an Invigilator, who is a registration officer in the ongoing Voters register abandoned his invigilation post.
The private schools are alleging the deployment of many invigilators to their schools has political undertones.
They believe it is an attempt by government to make private schools unattractive to discourage patronage by students not happy with quality of Education in Public Schools. ( as reported on the Ghanaweb)
“We are not happy about the deployment of many external invigilators to private schools on how they are intimidating our students. Psychologically it is affecting the students and we think it is politics just to influence performance of private schools to make it unattractive for Public Schools enjoying Free SHS to have glory”.
This report is as made by Ghanaweb and also monitored on the Citi TV on which it has become a pressing issue of interest in the nation as a whole.
As a fallout from this, it is being reported also that;
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has ordered senior High Schools across the country to de-boardinize students who are engaged in examination malpractices and insubordination
According to a statement issued by the GES on the recent riots in some schools in regards to the WAEC examinations, it said students engaging in such acts should be punished.
According to the Ghana Education Service (GES), the deboardnized students will have to commute from their homes to the various schools under parental supervision.
Also, Headmasters of these schools have been directed to report all forms of criminality to the Ghana Police Service for investigations to be conducted and punishment meted out where necessary.
The Service has also ordered that students established to be involved in the destruction of school property should be surcharged. ( curled from Ghanaweb)
Here in Nigeria, lessons need to been learnt to avoid a repeat of this as exams fully starts here by the 17th of August, God willing.
We cant afford to situation of unrest or anything that would in any way jeopardise the conduct of the exams which is already being conducted two months behind its annual schedule. Schools can not afford anything thay would cost them more than necessary in the conduct of the exams as they are already overstretched with the pandemic already.
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