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GNAT orders failed BECE students to re-sit
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Aug 27, Ghanadot - The Ghana National Association of Teachers is recommending that failed basic school leavers be given an opportunity to re-sit Basic Education Certificate Examinations to improve their results.

About 50 percent of students who took the BECE this year failed to make the grade required to move on to either secondary or technical institutions.

According to GNAT, since there is no opportunity for re-sit, the future of those who failed might be in jeopardy.

Mr. Joseph Adjei, President of the association in an interview on Joy FM, said several factors, other than poor academic performance, could be responsible for students’ unsatisfactory performance in exams.

“I believe the policy must be revisited. I believe they must be given the second chance to write. May be the circumstances under which they wrote the examination was also a factor,” he stressed.

In the meantime, officials of the Education Ministry disclosed that it is not astonishing that so many students cannot progress to the next level of education.

The Public Affairs Manager of the Education Ministry, Paul Krampah, noted that these candidates can gain admission into private schools.

“It doesn’t mean that the other 50 have failed, no they haven’t failed; they have other options available to them.”

To him, those who could not obtain the aggregate 30 mark for admission into other institutions can take course in technical and vocational schools in the country.

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Ghana's public debt stands at $7,841.3million

Accra, Aug 26, Ghanadot - Ghana's public debt now stand at US$7,841.3 million, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, told Parliament.
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