SHS students who would have been preparing to write their WASSCE exams in May/June this year are likely to progress to the Tertiary level if COVID-19 still persists.
A committee made up of Vice-Chancellors and other stakeholders have been constituted to come up with a road map which will allow the students to progress to the next level even if WASSCE has not been written, according to Dr. Kwabena Bempah Tandoh, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES).
"A committee has been set made up of vice-chancellors and others to discuss how the children can progress to the next level even if COVID-19 still persist,” he said in an interaction with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's morning show ‘Kokrokoo’.
It may be recalled that WAEC has put this year’s WASSCE on hold following the occurrence of COVID-19 in all 5 countries that take part in the examination namely; Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Liberia.
Students in all of these countries are currently in the house following the closure of schools.
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The kids can also write university entrance exam or government can accept the suggestion of the CRI and use their continuous assessment to grade them. After all we must be able to try something new for the first time. According to the GES timetable final year students are supposed to complete school first week in June. Please let us encourage these students and help them study hard for the entrance exam
In support of what me brother had just said.In my humble opinion what the Universities need to do is to defer admissions of 2020 and clear the back log of all WASSCE results over the years and increase thier mature students entrance.One of the advantage is that the campuses will for the first enjoy in decades enjoy sanity in human behaviour. The 3rd years should be given the chance to sit for the WASSCE by giivng them some two months of extra time to cover up for the lost period and finsh by June while we make sure all contractors finish the works for more space as we continue with this truck system. For the other West Africa countries they can device a strategy that will suit them remember sometime in the late 2000s when we went for 4years Ghana did not sit for SSCE for a particular year because there were no students but WAEC did not close down,the Universities were full because they had students to admit.Apart form that a sizeable majority of the students in third year have NOV/Dec results that will qualify them to University.They should call Teachers in SHS to give them counsel and stop talking of things they have not much knowledge in because the students have not gotten to the Universities yet.
The kids must write the exams after the COVID is curtailed. Without the WASSCE it would be difficult for kids from poor home to get admission to the likes of UCC, UG or KNUST. Politicians and rich parents would hijack the system. I had 5As, 2Bs and C when I sat the SSSCE in the year 2000 and someone from a humble home I saw myself studying BCom at UCC. My credentials are now BCom, MBA, FCMA, CGMA, CA(Ghana). The kids must write WASSCE for the sake of children from humble homes.
The kids must write the exams after the COVID is curtailed. Without the WASSCE it would be difficult for kids from poor home to get admission to the likes of UCC, UG or KNUST. Politicians and rich parents would hijack the system. I had 5As, 2Bs and C when I sat the SSSCE in the year 2000 and someone from a humble home I saw myself studying BCom at UCC. My credentials are now BCom, MBA, FCMA, CGMA, CA(Ghana). The kids must write WASSCE for the sake children from humble homes.