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General News on Thursday, April 11, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-04-11
One of the schools where the exam questions were written on the board
All district education offices in the country must be equipped with printing machines for the production of examination copies for primary schools, said the Ghana Education Service (GES).
This decision comes after some teachers' photographs of some of the Ashanti area's basic schools writing exam questions on the board became viral last week as students pbaded their final exams. second half.
A GHG directive calling on officials to stop the collection of printing costs from students meant that until the government released funds for this purpose, the authorities needed to find a way to conduct reviews.
They thought writing the exam questions on the board was the best option – albeit tedious – leaving the dissatisfied GES.
According to the Service, the directive to stop the collection of printing costs was intended to prevent extortion and discrimination.
"We did not tell teachers to write on the board, we forced teachers to stop collecting printing fees because schools charged huge fees to pay for printing.
"We decided that teachers would stop collecting printing fees and that they should not prevent candidates from taking exams or prevent students from attending school," said the GHG PRO.
At a press conference on Thursday to address some of the issues surrounding the education sector, the Director General of the GES said that the teachers' decision to write exam questions on the board was an unnecessary dramatization of the issue. situation.
According to Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, the Service had spoken with stakeholders, including principals and their principals, to resolve the problem, but had not been able to make a decision until schools could take exams.
He added that proposals had been made for the provision of "print material in all district education offices across the country for the printing of exam questions and reviews. Other printing needs of schools and offices, without direct financial commitment on the part of a pupil or a parent ".
Another proposal that was made at this consultative meeting concerned the use of part of the FCUBE grant (Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education) for the printing of examinations, but the supply of machinery seems more plausible.
He added that the printing machines will be available by the beginning of the next quarter and will be used.
Mr. Amankwa stated that the Service would not return to the old way and that the directive that students would not be charged for examinations would remain.
He stressed: "The Constitution of the Republic of Ghana provides for compulsory and free basic education. The indication given to us is that no child should be denied access to academic work because of his inability to pay.
"It is therefore unacceptable to pay taxes, fees that could prevent any child from gaining access to academic work," Kwasi Opoku Amankwa told reporters.
He reiterated the willingness of the services to implement the FCUBE. Therefore, "the inability to pay should not be the foundation on which no child will be denied access to education".
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