The Acting Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Jacob Kor says there will be tough sanctions for teachers and headteachers who may be found culpable in the leakage of examination papers and other examination malpractices.
Speaking to journalists in the Volta Regional capital, Ho on the sidelines of a meeting with District Directors,
he indicated that teachers and headteachers who assist students during examinations cannot be left
unpunished.
He said a teacher in the Eastern region has already been sanctioned for helping a student to cheat in an examination.
The said teacher, according to him will face the regional disciplinary committee of the GES and as soon
as investigations are concluded, the appropriate action will be taken.
Jacob Kor said those who indulge in this act must be punished, adding that “let’s teach our generation the right thing, the truth nothing but the truth.
“If we encourage them to engage in examination malpractices, they will end up killing us the hospitals as quack doctors because they have not learnt enough”, he added.
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) Wednesday June 17, cancelled five papers in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) after a massive leakage was noticed.
A statement confirming the cancelation was released by the examination body Wednesday.
Signed by Mrs. Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Deputy Director of Public Affairs, the statement listed the following papers as having been "compromised".
Meanwhile, some of the candidates say they are struggling to come to terms with the news that five papers they have written have been cancelled.
Some of them who spoke to Joy News’ Hannah Odame today at their examination centers say this will affect their preparation for the last two papers.
“I feel so bad. I couldn’t eat last night, some of my friends have fainted and are on admission at the hospital currently”, one student told Hannah when she was asked how she felt about the cancellation.
Some of the students who had gone to their various examination centres to write the French paper scheduled for this morning said they had no idea the papers had been cancelled.
Others pleaded with the Council to allow them write their papers because they had no hand in the leakage neither did they have any idea about it.
Source: Myjoyonline.com | Naa Sakwaba Akwa
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