A retired educationalist Mr. Robert Ajene has described government’s purchase of past questions for the first batch of Free Senior High students in preparation of the West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination as wrong.
Government through the Ghana Education Service procured 400,000 sets of questions and answer booklets from the West African Examination Council for distribution to the first batch of the students under government’s Free Senior High School policy.
Some aggrieved final year students in Southern Ghana were spotted on social media demonstrating their frustrations over government’s failure to allow WAEC set questions base on the procured past questions.
But speaking on A1 Radio’s Daybreak Upper East, Mr. Ajene described government’s decision as unfortunate.
He explained that, strict supervision of teaching and learning and the provision of adequate teaching and learning materials remain key to academic excellence.
“It is delicate but I will say it, it was wrong for government to have bought past questions for them, At our time, we never taught of past questions and we wrote our exams and passed once.
There was no nonsense of November/December exams because that one was meant for workers who were not in school and not for school children. Parents are wrong, the students too are wrong”.
Mr. Ajene, bemoaned the poor working conditions among teachers as the cause of poor performance in public schools and urged government to improve the conditions of service for teachers.
“The terms and conditions of service for the teacher has fallen to the lowest level. So, the teacher then tries to look after himself or herself and not to go and teach. There is no proper discipline in most of the schools.
The teachers are behaving because of how they are been treated, the welfare is very bad, there are no means and fuel for supervision. Teachers further their education and are not given incremental credits; you force teachers to write license exams after completing training college?”
Mr. Ajene, called for better conditions of service for teachers and improved supervision and teaching and learning materials to improve the standard of education in the country.
Source:|A1radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Frederick Yinbil|Ghana
