News:
June 29, 2015
Deputy Minister for Education, in charge of Basic Education Hon. Alex Kyeremeh has explained that the use of National Security personnel as supervisors of the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) was to ensure the integrity of the examination.
He said this move by government is not to frighten the students but to avert a reoccurrence of another leakage of the examination papers as was witnessed nearly a fortnight ago when some of the question papers went viral.
Following this, the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) canceled some papers after detecting that some the questions had leaked and was widespread on social media.
The five cancelled papers were English Language 2, Religious and Moral Education 2, Integrated Science 2, Mathematics 2, and Social Studies 2.
The examination body thus set 29th and 30th June for the re-sit of the cancelled examination papers which is being written by about 438,030 candidates across the country.
Speaking on OKAY FM’s “Ade Akye Abia” morning show Monday, Hon, Kyeremeh disclosed that the National Security was heavily in charge of the processes leading to the sitting of the exams.
“They have been involved in the process of selection of the papers through to the printing…transportation to the depot…to the transfer to the exam centres, with this kind of tight security one can be assured that there will not be any leakage’’ he noted.
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