[ 2015-11-25 ]

Mampong Technical College closed down after mass failures in elective maths
The Mampong Technical College of Education in the
Ashanti region has been closed down over fears
that more than 200 students who failed Elective
Maths may be planning to burn down the school.

The students risk being sacked after they failed
the compulsory paper and also failed to take
advantage of a re-sit opportunity.

In response, the students went on a rampage
Monday. Some threw stones at school facilities
destroying 19 Louvre blades.

One student has been arrested, Ashanti regional
correspondent Erastus Asare Donkor told Joy News.

School authorities also picked up intelligence,
the angry students were planning to set the school
buses on fire.

Police advised the school authorities to close
down the school, a recommendation which was
promptly adhered to. The school was closed
Monday.

The students were under the impression that the
Elective Maths course was not mandatory and that
they had option of choosing and sitting courses in
General and Technical subjects.

But the University of Cape Coast to which the
College of Education is affiliated had scrapped
the options available to the students and made
Elective Mathematics a compulsory course.

Failure required that the students re-sit the
paper or repeat their Level. About 261 students
did not re-sit the paper when the opportunity
came.

The rule governing examination is that “you
don’t carry a referral from one level to
another level” a school exams administrator
Francis told Joy News.

The students do not understand why they are being
compelled to do Elective Maths when they had
pysched themselves to pursue the General Courses

Faced with the prospect of getting sacked, the
students violently protested leading to the
closure of the school.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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