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Due to their attempts to assist students in answering certain questions during the BECE, two invigilators in the Bono Region and three teachers in Bekwai have been detained.
An education expert, Dr. Peter Anti-Partey, claims that instructors have been told not to instruct pupils in the test rooms.
The WAEC has implemented steps, including this arrest, to combat examination misconduct in all its manifestations.
“Teachers are supposed to prepare students for the exam and that is where it ends. You are not supposed to get into the examination centre and engage in examination malpractice no matter how critical the situation is.”
“I believe that WAEC should make official complaints to the National Security Council so that their licenses will be withheld so that it will serve as deterrent to other teachers who would want to put their professional lives on the line because their students are writing exams and will use any devious ways to ensure that their students pass.”
In order to guarantee that teachers found guilty have their licenses revoked, Dr. Anti-Partey recommended that WAEC formally submit such incidents to the National Security Council.
According to John Kapi, Head of Corporate Affairs at WAEC, the teachers that were arrested are presently being held by the police.
He states that the public will be informed of further details.
“We have also taken two teachers from a center in the Bono Region as we speak. They are educators from a few local elementary schools, and they also have a link person who took some exam room photos and sent them to them so the kids could answer them. Thus, the police have also received them.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
