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General News of Monday, June 10, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-06-10
The 2019 B.E.C.E officially began today on June 10
Some 62 foreign students were prevented from standing for the basic education certification exam throughout the country.
The students, Nigerian and Togolese, were arrested after the discovery of the authorities of the South Ketu municipality, in the Volta region, which would have been registered by a Ghanaian headmaster for the examinations of the students. one week.
Innocent Agblevor, director of a private school, Kekeli's preparatory school in Aflao, was arrested, said MCE of Ketu South, said Elliot Edem Agbenorwu.
MCE told JoyNews correspondent Ivy Setordjie about foreign students from Nigeria and Togo, who attended a school in Togo-based religious mission from JHS1 to JHS3.
But they were enrolled as Ghanaian students without any cumulative record detailing their academic history, said MCE for Ketu South.
Elliot Edem Agbenorwu called their recording "sabotage of government policy".
The Nana Akufo-Addo administration has put in place a free education policy for high schools, eliminating the payment of tuition fees to improve access.
Registrations since the introduction of the policy in September 2017 have boosted by 90,000 more students. With registrations up, government spending has also increased.
In the first year of implementation, the government spent 800 million Cedis on the first group of the 361,771 beneficiaries. In the 2018 budget statement, about C $ 1.34 billion was allocated for program implementation, sources of financing from oil revenues, taxes, royalties and levies.
President Akufo-Addo urged the BECE 2019 candidates, who are more than half a million to pbad the exams this week, to strive to keep the promise of a free education.
All that students must do is not to exceed the total of 25. Foreign students have been registered to take advantage of Ghana's policy.
Attempts by some outsiders to take advantage of citizen programs and policies have been a source of national concern.
Other West African nationals would have obtained pbadports and birth certificates.
More recently, a Nigerian has been helped to sign up for Ghana's identity card. His Ghanaian collaborator, responsible for the National Identification Authority, was arrested.
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