[ 2016-06-15 ]

12 BECE candidates banned from writing papers in Yendi
Education authorities in the Yendi Municipality of
the Northern Region have banned 12 candidates from
participating in the ongoing Basic Education
Certificate Examination (BECE).

The Yendi Municipal Chief Executive, Alhaji Issah
Zakariah classified the affected candidates as 11
boys and one girl.

He divulged this to Citi News on the sidelines of
the Yendi Municipal Assembly’s Town Hall Meeting
on Tuesday.

According to him, they were smoked out by the
Yendi Municipal Education Oversight Committee for
truancy and absenteeism in school.

“We realized that truancy is high in our
schools and we decided that pragmatic measures
have to be put in place to ensure that teachers
and students are kept on their toes to see to it
that the performance is improved,” he remarked.


The Committee discovered that some of the
affected students attended school for 10 or 20
days in a term. This, the Yendi MCE explained
meant they were unprepared for the BECE, hence
their ban. Alhaji Issah Zakariah described the
measure as a game changer meant to overturn the
mass failure of students who write the BECE in the
Yendi Municipality.

“For some years now the Municipal Assembly for
that matter the Municipal Education Oversight
Committee has been putting measures in place to
get quality education for our people and with
regards to the mass failure of students in our
schools.”

He charged circuit supervisors in the Yendi
Municipality to intensify their supervisory roles
to curb situation.

He warned that the exercise will continue
unabated to weed out and prevent recalcitrant
students from participating in future BECE.

Source - citifmonline.com

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