Beginning today, August 7, 2023, more than 600,000 students will take the week-long Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
300,323 males and 300,391 females from 18,993 schools across the nation are among them.
The candidates this year are the final group of students to take the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), which has been offered for more than 30 years.
According to a new curriculum that was introduced in 2019, the first group of junior high school students will take a new exam in 2024.
The junior high school exit exam, which will be based on the new standard-based curriculum, will be given to students in 2024.
This indicates that a new BECE and a new era in student examinations will be introduced in 2024.
The Coalition of Concerned Teachers, however, is demanding that the new Standard-based curriculum examination have a clear path.
Adokwei Ayikwie Awule, the Coalition of Concerned Teachers’ Director of Communications, said: “We will need a clear path on the Standard-based curriculum examination.”
In a statement dated August 3, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) cautioned candidates who would be taking the Basic Education Certificate Examination in 2023 not to engage in malpractice or any other act or misbehavior that might interfere with their goals and aspirations.
Few days ago, the Ghana Education Service (GES) revoked its order to BECE supervisors and invigilators to conduct a thorough search of candidates taking the exam in the Waija-Gbawe Municipality.
The education body authorized a thorough search of all candidates, including their private areas, before they were allowed to enter the examination room in a memo dated July 18, 2023, which has since gone viral on social media.
The instruction that was listed in the communique’s point 4 was one of a long list of others that many people find outrageous.
The directives outlined in the letter, according to GES, are just one step in the process of ensuring the free, fair, and transparent conduct of the 2023 BECE.
