FOLLOWING the continuous poor performance of some schools in the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in the Northern Region, the District Education Directorate in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District has initiated moves at ensuring high academic standards in the area.
The programme involves testing of pupils in the district on various subjects to prepare them for their final examinations. It includes pupils from primary four to those in form two in junior high schools in the area.
In all, 7,354 pupils wrote the standard examination being piloted in some schools.
According to the District Director of Education, Mr Frank Aflakpui, the programme would be improved upon in subsequent terms and would be made more competitive to cover all schools.
He stated that the district’s performance in the BECE had improved over the years and that in the 2008 BECE “we were among the top 16 districts nationwide.”
The district director, therefore, explained that, the standard examination that was conducted from July 23 to 28, this year, was aimed at “building and maintaining a higher academic standard in the district.”
In order to achieve the objectives of the initiative, Mr Aflakpui urged teachers in the area to always live up to their responsibilities to meet the standards set out for them in the execution of their work.
He, however, acknowledged the difficulties faced by the teachers in their respective duties, but appealed to them to strive in finding an antidote to the challenges they might encounter in the pilot programme.
Mr Aflakpui further called for effective collaboration among stakeholders in education to ensure quality education delivery in the area which was considered one of the deprived districts in the country.
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