The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked the public to use its hotlines to report exam cheating in their communities to help stop the problem.
The GES is worried about the reported cases of people caught cheating despite measures put in place to handle the issue during exams. Prof. Dzisi gave a strong promise that those involved in exam cheating would be caught.
She said this during a visit to some senior high schools in Accra to see the start of the theory part of this year’s WASSCE for School Candidates yesterday. ”We have people all over the place, security agencies that have joined all sorts of secret platforms, so if you try you’ll be in trouble. So, we will continue to encourage the public to send us information.
We need the whistleblowers so that we’ll be able to stop this kind of cheating during our exams,” she said.
A Deputy Director-General of the GES, Professor Smile Gavua Dzisi, who made the call, indicated that the hotlines—020-1360-789 for calls and SMS and 020-1360-786 for WhatsApp—had been helpful in the fight against exam cheating in the BECE, with people giving information; hence, the need to do more.
The tour saw her visiting Accra Girls Senior High School and Accra High School, joined by the Greater Accra Regional Director of Education, Hajia Katumi Natogmah Attah, and the Director of Finance of the GES, Dr. Musah Imoro. Prof. Dzisi said, despite all the campaigns that the service had done, “we still have some teachers and invigilators who are daring.
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The Deputy Director-General of the GES said there was the need to protect the integrity of the country’s exams in order to see the true learning outcomes, so students should be left alone to do their work.
” Let’s leave them; let them write the exam, and let’s see the true reflection so we can know what to do and how to improve upon whatever we are doing. But when we try to give them “apo,” we indulge in exam cheating—it does not help us at all,” she said.
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Let them write the exam in peace. Return to May-June calendar. Commenting on Ghana’s return to the May-June WASSCE-SC, Prof. Dzisi said not writing the WASSCE with the other member countries of WAEC came at no cost to the government.
She said the Education Minister, the Director-General of the GES, and WAEC worked very hard to ensure that Ghanaian candidates wrote the WASSCE with their West African counterparts. “So, it’s very significant to know that after five years, this is the first time that we are writing WASSCE-SC with other West African countries. So, we are all in line now, and that will not cost the country a lot of money.
“We have also prepared the students adequately for that, and we are very sure that we’ll get great results at the end of this exam,” she said. For her part, Hajia Attah, among other things, wished the candidates good luck in the exam. She appealed to the invigilators not to help any child cheat during the exam.
“They shouldn’t send any foreign materials to aid them in the classroom. We have prepared them enough; a lot of teaching and learning went on. ”And then we are sure that the children themselves can write and make the grades they deserve.
I also want to say that exam cheating is not anything good. You get the certificates, and people doubt you. ”We want people to be reassured that all the certificates that we are getting in Ghana are also competitive and we can use them in other countries, so let us write well. Let us stop exam cheating,” she said.
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