JHS3 students to write 2024 BECE without seeing any textbook – Kofi Asare

Projections made based on facts is that Junior high school students are likely to write the 2024 BECE without seeing any textbook. This is as a result of the introduction of the 2029 curriculum without accompanying textbooks.

The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare made this sad revelation regarding the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) during the JoyFM’s Super Morning Show on Wednesday, January 3 monitored by Ghana Education News.

After the government finalized the Common Core curriculum, he claims, there was a change in the curriculum.

The Common Core standards were not finalized on the same day as the elementary school curriculum, he stressed.

The first group of pupils to use the Common Core curriculum will take the BECE next year, according to Mr. Asare, who announced during Wednesday, January 3’s JoyFM Super Morning Show.

JHS3 students to write 2024 BECE without seeing any textbook – Kofi Asare -VIDEO

He stressed that these children may be “writing BECE without seeing any textbooks” when they begin to learn under the Common Core if textbooks are not made available to them between now and June.

Because of a disagreement between textbook publishers and the government, Mr. Asare made it clear that he does not expect textbooks to be available.

He claims that the publishers are claiming that the government has not paid them.

“When they were promised that the government was giving them 100% local content in the publication of textbooks, they were all happy, and they went and procured loans to print textbooks, and then they have not been paid. They owe about 90% of what they do,” he said.

The significant costs that are associated with the production of textbooks were brought to the attention of the Executive Director, who emphasised the gravity of the situation.

Furthermore, he highlighted that if publishers have not been paid, it indicates that the textbooks are not ready, and this is in addition to the fact that the procurement process has not yet begun.

“That’s why I don’t see the junior school textbooks happening anytime between now and the next BECE,” he concluded.