The Ghana Education Service (GES) has refuted claims that it plans to cancel the Basic Education Certificate Examination for junior high school students.
The BECE’s nature and format are expected to change as GES transitions from the previous objectives-based curriculum to a standards-based curriculum, according to GES.
Dr. Eric Nkansah, the Director General of GES, stated that rumours about the alleged cancellation of the examination are inaccurate when speaking at a stakeholder engagement on the grading system by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
“We are not cancelling the BECE. What is confusing people or some of our people is that we are now moving away from the old objectives-based curriculum to the standards-based curriculum, and it does not mean that those on the standards-based curriculum will not write BECE. They will also write but perhaps the nature and form may change. So please don’t communicate that we are not writing BECE.”
For junior high school graduates who are set to join senior high school, WAEC administers the Basic Education Certificate Examination.
Source: Citinewsroom
